11-14-2020

Cast on today as I found myself without anything I wanted to work on. Did the crochet magic loop cast on, finished chart A and half of chart B.

Using 6/0 copper color beads from Bead Biz

Doing the large, fully beaded version, of course.

11-15-2020

Sections B, C, D, and E complete. Rows are beginning to get a bit long now, so progress will slow, but at least I put a god dent in it. Already able to see the color shifting.

11-20-2020

Chart F finished, that’s the last of the charts that mirrors the small size. Then you jump to large size charts starting with U. Finished chart U, and a few rows into chart V. Stitch counts are ~500 per row, it varies a bit but that’s a solid average. Moving fairly quickly despite that, but the rows with tons of beads can take an hour or so to finish.

11-21-2020

Finished chart V - over 700 stitches on the needles. Next up, a few rows of stockinette and then a decrease back to the 500 stitch range. Could take all day just to do those plain rows.

Still barely into the olive green color of the gradient, it’s a long way to go to get into the blue.

11-22-2020

Finished the 6 looong transition rows, and one row of chart W. I believe I have plenty of yarn so I am doing the full version (there is an option to remove 4 rows to save yarn). Still quite a while to go.

11-29-2020

Almost finished with Chart X. Still too much yarn left so I may have to figure out how to safely extend it so that I can at least get to the last color of the gradient.

September 28, 2024

Got a wild hair this morning and pulled this one out to finally finish. I was in the middle of the BO when I set it aside.

First thing I noticed was that there were glaring errors in the work. Ok, it was 4 years ago and maybe I wasn’t as good as I thought I was. Press on!

After almost an hour of trying to figure out what the heck type of BO I was doing, I gave up. Tried to unpick the work and see if I could get back to a place of recognition, no luck. The yarn was knotted somehow around the beads, and there was no ripping possible. Tinking thousands of stitches with knots and beads was not happening.

Decided to just bite the bullet on this one, cut my losses, and find a way to use the remaining 118g of yarn.

Cut and ripped where possible to retrieve as many of the hundreds of beads I could, and then binned it. Sometimes the only path forward is one that calls it quits. I hate the loss of the work and the materials, but I also had to recognize that it sat for almost 4 years in a bag in the bottom of my storage for a reason. One less WIP to stare me in the face. Onward and next time better!