Miscellaneous March 2

Continued from yesterday

Third! I worked on a shoulder wrap, but this one I actually unraveled. It still has a project page on Ravelry (again, Rav account required for that – at least I’m pretty sure), but the short version is gauge problems. According to my gauge swatch the wrap should have been huge (couldn’t go smaller without making the fabric stiff), but when I actually made it the only thing that was bigger than it ought to be was the neckline ribbing, and that only widthwise. In every other direction it was too small (well, the length would have been fine I think), and I also wasn’t so keen on the way the yarn variegation was playing with the cabling.

frogged shoulder wrap, back frogged shoulder wrap, front

You see, on the Premier Yarns website, the picture for this colorway is green and white with a little bit of brown – there is not a trace of blue or gray to be seen. It was quite a surprise when the yarn arrived! I still like it, but it detracts from the visual unity of the cables. I’ll use this yarn for something else and make the shoulder wrap with more solid colored yarn.

Let’s finish up with another successful project, albeit one that was arguably even more purposeless than the tooth: an afghan square. Julie Yeager – who designed the mysteryghan – ran a free, short mystery crochet-along, and I thought “why not?” Here’s the square, called Fantastic:

afghan square Fantastic, five of 7 clues completed afghan square Fantastic, finished

I used some leftover mysteryghan yarn and some greens from my stash.

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