Yes, I’m making another one, and the other two aren’t finished yet. I just love this pattern and am really into lace-weight yarn at the moment. Also, to my horror, I opened my project bag for my Kelp Forest wrap and found a moth in it yesterday. Said project is now spending a week in the freezer to try to kill any potential unwanted visitors and their destructive appetites. In the meanwhile, I’ll work on this or my Paris Night version, depending on if I’m in a red or a blue mood.
09-13-2020
Thoughts on madelinetosh Prairie: Scratchier and stiffer than Malabrigo Lace, so far. Is that the difference between madelinetosh’s superwash merino and Malabrigo’s baby merino? The rougher texture has one benefit in that I can feel it better and it holds its loops open better, so I’m crocheting a lot faster.
The color is pretty. Looks like a basic scratchy brick-red at first glance, but there’s so much variagation up close: red, rust, orange, copper, gold, purple. Very nice.
09-13-2020
Method changes: On this one, I tried to do a single-crochet foundation (because my previous chains were sloppy, precarious, and hard to crochet into), but the yarn is so fine I’d need a magnifying glass and four hands--or a bit more experience. Instead, I did a slow and careful chain of 76* and then a row of single crochet on top of that before starting the pattern. The asterisk is me rolling my eyes because I was supposed to chain 80, the last 4 chains being the first treble crochet. Only not--because that wouldn’t work with the extra row of SC. I lucked out. Just chained 4 after the row of SC and started the pattern, and all was fine. Whew.
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