04-22-2022

Bought a kit. Fabulous yarns.

06-24-2022

Pro tip! I’m on the bind off row and I’ve used less than 60 yards of master color. Less than 60 of 436 yards. I suspect this is why it’s only available in a kit. Because, if you bought the pattern you could easily buy one skein of master color and that would easily cover the pattern for 4 people. But then I suppose they wouldn’t make as much money, and after all, that is the goal. Makes me think much less of artyarns. I’ll weigh the remaining master color when I’m done with bind off.

Row before bind off is MC. I switched it up to size 9 needles. Make sure it’s loose. I also chose to do a Russian bind off. The pattern isn’t really clear about bind off. Bind off regular 4 stretches, then loose bind off for 4…when you switch from regular bind off to loose bind off, what do you want done with the stitch left on the right needle from reg bind off? Silly things like this is kinda what I expect a pattern to do, explain. I can wing it, though.

Again, quite a few errors in the pattern. I stopped documenting them all. Initially I thought it was my good\f, but after pulling out excel and charting out for myself, nope, still not me. So don’t lose sleep if you think you goofed. It’s not you. Weird, in my profession errors (especially frequent) would cost people money, utilities to not work, etc. so maybe I just have higher standards? An errata would be so easy. I think I found one error addressed elsewhere, but not all the others.

06-25-2022

This is so huge it’s wider than my screened porch
I can’t pull it out all the way. I think I’ll let it hang dry like this, then take a squirt bottle to the center and just stretch that part out to expose the circles (I’ll fold the ends in since they’ll be done already.