Yarnification

Um. Sorry about the depressive tirade. It was a bad day.

I got out of work about quarter after midnight, then when I got home I ended up finishing that pineapple square. I decided to try to join them in the last round as I make them, which I’ve never done before, and it worked out pretty well. The final round is all 3dc, ch2, 3dc v-stitches with a ch2 between most of them. I figured joining in the ch2 in the middle of the v-stitch (actually, I always thought of a v stitch as being a little different than that, but anyway it’s what the pattern calls them) would look best, so on the joining side of the final round of the second square, instead of doing the ch2 in the middle of the v-stitch, I took the hook out, hooked it into the chain space in the corresponding spot on the other square, picked up the loop again, and kept going without making the ch2. I don’t know if that’s how you’re supposed to go about joining squares like that in the last round, but it seems to be working out nicely.

No photos yet. I want to get the whole thing done and blocked first.

Speaking of done and blocked, I finally finished up the beaded shawl, and now I just need to make some test swatches to see what I want to use to stiffen it and then wash, stiffen, and block the shawl and attach the tassels. It kinda ought to be done by Sunday, since that’s when we’re going to visit Sara (her birthday was yesterday, but getting together then wasn’t workable for her or for us). I hope it comes out nicely. I also still haven’t found those damn hair beads for the tassels, either, even though I’ve looked everywhere. Jewels suggested dollar stores, which I hadn’t tried, but I haven’t been able to find them in any of the dollar stores around here, either. Oh, wait, I still haven’t tried Sally’s, so maybe they’ll turn up there. If not, I’ll figure something out.