A Week Later

I'm just going to pick right up and act like I didn't lose a week of my life running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Because I literally just spent the last week running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Except for the days that I intentionally sat around and did nothing. Or we could call it resting and recharging. Either way.

I skipped Zone 4 last week but I'm going to just jump back in. As soon as I'm done typing this I'm going to look around Zone 5 and pick something to do. There are lots of options, it's probably the worst zone in here.

I did manage to finish up all 3 of the squares I was working on this week.

They all three have a lot of texture, although I didn't necessarily photograph them to the best advantage. 

This is September Star designed by Aurora Suominen of DragonFlyMomof2 Designs. I'm not sure if her tension is just different than mine, or if it's my yarn and hook combination but I was just not getting the bumps in the middle section. I redid it a couple times before I finally dug around enough to find some posts on ravelry where people were using this pattern in a CAL (I think) and discussing how they got the texture to work for themselves. So I used a technique from that discussion and it worked pretty well. I would link to that, but you have to have a ravelry account to see it.

This lovely square is Oh, Starry Night by Margaret MacInnis. I wish I had spent more time adjusting the middle before taking the picture, I've missed out on quite a bit of the texture. I wish I had done the last row a little differently, but by the time I get around to joining these squares I'll probably give them a border anyway so that will help it have a cleaner a look.

So that's a little piece of this past project done, now I'm going to go do another wildlife square and I'll get back to this project somewhere down the line. I look lots of notes in my Google Drive folder with the patterns for this project so next time I get to it, I'll remember what I decided. You're welcome, Future Cheri.