This is the first project I started when my grandmother was teaching me to crochet. I wanted it to be super large and was just doing single crochets over and over lol.

I remember not finishing it because it was taking so long, but when I dug it out of my childhood closet along with other yarn leftovers, apparently, “not finished,” still meant, “very fucking large.”

I’m almost certain I was using a 4.25mm hook at the time, but it was very obvious my tension was far, far tighter now. Rather than mess with my tension, which I didn’t think I could keep that loose (and frankly I’m terrified of messing with my tension for fear my regular tension will change without my noticing), I tried a few and decided a 5.5mm hook was close enough.

I wanted to use ALL of the ~2 skeins of yarn I had left since it was either that or throw them out. I did a few dozen rows or something and then decided to use the rest on a border as I thought it might make it look a little less awful.

I had more yarn for the border than I realized. Border goes:

1 row dc (an attempt to hide the more jagged parts of the older edges)
1 row tr
1 row sc
several rows of moss stitch
1 row sc (with 3.5mm hook and very tight tension)

I weighed the remaining yarn as I did the rows past the tr to determine how many more I could do. I did moss stitch for several rows until I thought I had just enough for one last row of sc. I got 80% through and ran out, frogged the whole round, then sized down to a 3.5mm and tried to keep my tension as tight as possible. Ended up with maybe 1 yard left.

I think I used two few stitches at the corners when doing the dc and tr borders, so it curls a bit there.

I’m going to throw this in the washing machine and lay out to dry to see if it’ll feel less crystallized. Might try that shampoo/conditioner thing.

If anyone’s reading this, hi, this is purely for me to read when I inevitably forget what I did.