Thursday, March 3, 2016

Second Nova Scotia Tartan mesh completed.

Last night I finished crocheting the mesh for the replacement Nova Scotia Tartan that my daughter has in her home now.  I also have a lot of the cording crocheted to put through and hope to start putting them in today.

A word to the wise, lesson learned.  I have been purchasing yarn only as needed and decided to buy the extra I would need to do one more tartan, in other words two different shades of green.  In a slight of a moment I reached for the wrong skein and some 100 grams later of crocheting I have to remove this from the Newfoundland mesh as it is far to dark. 

From now on I will take a piece of labelling and write the name of the afghan on it, when there is another one to do I can always know exactly what green or blue I used. 

I also have the first ten rows of the Stewart Tartan done and another mistake.  I picked up a smaller hook than I normally use and live and learn.  I will take my spare hooks and leave them with the work at all times.

On a brighter note I am also almost finished my first leg of the highland hose that I am working on.  It is not a difficult pattern, but one that has a topper of what I call trinity stitch, followed by cables turned every seven rows, almost ready to decrease.

Have a great day, it is very cold here, windy and a winter storm is threatening to come.

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