My first mosaic crochet miracle: Rainbow in the Fjords
The ultimate writing procrastination side-project.
This is what happens when a rainbow stash of yarn, mosaic crochet, and my tendency to overcommit collides.
Behold, my mosaic crochet monstronsity!
In brief, this project was a doozy folks. As you can see, I tried to give you a detailed run down of the experience. The amount of yarn was extremely difficult to estimate, let alone the number of hours I spent battling it — largely due to how many times I frogged it, on both counts. Still, I can safely say that this hug/heritage blanket is the largest project I have ever completed.
Was the froggy pain worth it? Absolutely.
Would I ever do it again? Hell no.
To be completely frank, this was both an ADHD crocheters dream (what with all the fun colors and funky patterns) and an ADHD crocheters nightmare (what with all the excessive color switches and bullshit patterns). The only saving grace for this pattern was the freeform crochet I decided to add. However, with that exception included the entire pattern required an extensive amount of focused counting and stitch markers. And those are two things I am very good at losing track of.
Even so, despite all the starts and stops with this one, I am proud of how it turned out. When push comes to shove, I finished it, right? So maybe, if you are lucky and I’ve taken enough time to lick my wounds, I will come back here and fess up to how I escaped frogging half of the blanket and still managed to get a “straight” border.
Let’s just say there were a lot of tears and curses — plus scissors and sewing machine techniques I never knew existed.
Okay fine.
So I cut it off. Yes, that’s right. You read that correctly. Me and my impulsive stubborn-ass brain refused to frog the damn thing. Instead, I grabbed my sewing machine and a framing square, marked my borders and started sewing. To top it all off, I then cut off the non-squared bits, whipped up a double border to hide the mess, and convinced myself that I always intended to have a thick border.
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