Another done plus another started. This has taken me two days to get this far. Mainly cause I've been doing other things in between. I reckon to get around four diamonds a day and a whole star in a day and a half.
Upwards and onwards!!!
23 December 2017
21 December 2017
3 little stars in a row
Well I did it. I flipping DID IT. I remembered to join the green to the pink!!!
I'm so chuffed with this I'm going to add more to the 'whatever it is' while I'm rocking and rolling!!!
When I had the threads off Sue Hanson she'd wound some HWT onto small embroidery floss thingies but most of them seem to have three or four strands (4 actually don't work out to the size that I need and sometimes 3 don't either!!!). All this is trial and error. Sometimes 1 of the strands is thicker than the others. To even things up I've sometimes had to add a thicker thread to get the right size. My aged fingers are getting quite good at feeling the right size!!!
I've split her wound threads up again and added others (sometimes thinner) too. It's amazing how adept an old git can get at doing this without wasting a scrap of thread!!!! There's been some cussing though as occasionally I've nearly got a true tangle but the air still isn't blue in this corner of Tat Land!!!
I test each new HWT out with a few rings and chains of the pattern to make sure they'll work with each sizing before I start another star.
20 December 2017
The scarf is finished
I really enjoyed doing this chevron pattern and hope to use the idea again sometime in the future. I think it would be really good for making blankets using up scraps of yarn. Still, that's for the future - if ever!!!
I love the way the two yarns of quite different colours worked so well. Interesting as one had browns in and the other mainly blues. Just shows you (or, rather, I) can never be sure how things will turn out!!!
