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.

01-28-2025

This is not actually literally frogged because that would involve me digging through boxes to find the bag it’s in. But it’s more than four years later, and I don’t think I actually need that many versions of this lacy scarf. I’ll free this lovely yarn up for another potential, theoretical, far-flung, will-I-ever-finish-my-other-WIPs-enough-to-start-a-new-one, future day.