This weeks crocheting is marked by many appearances of that pesky amphibian -- the frog. The chevron motife for the Crochet club is going to disappear once again and the new one is going to use an E hook. If I weren't so stubborn I would just leave well enough alone and say enough to the gauge. However, not knowing how everything is going to fit together I do not have that luxury. Reading posts at Ravelry shows that I am not alone in having the same problems.
The second part of the pattern is due this week so perhaps there will be a better idea about how things fit together. Right now the dimensions are not very helpful in guessing about how things might be going together.
Even the knitting was not immune from the unwelcome critter. Since the project is lace and I am never comfortable just taking the needles out and unraveling it was TINK time. fortunately I only had a row and a half to TINK. Back on track and ready to make some progress.
I brought home 2 needlepoing canvases from the shop last Tuesday. They are supposed to be shop models when finished. Started several years ago and tucked behind a bookcase and forgotten, The first is a JP Needlepoint purse in silver, gray and charcoal gray. If I had started it I would have chosed a different stitch for the background (gray) but since the backgound was 90% completed I am just continuing on in basketweave. I did frog all of the silver because the previous stitchers switched fibers (size 12 and size 8 Kreinik) and the back was a total mess of knots and hanging threads. I toyed with the idea of using a different stitch for the silver but the pattern just gets lost in the shine of the silver. I have restitched everything I frogged in the silver and should make good progress to finishing this week.
The second canvas is a Lee Needlepoint Japanese Kimono -- flying cranes against a red background. This one is not very far along so I will have quite a bit to say about how it looks.
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