Monday, September 25, 2017
Red on Red Runner Finished
I had made an afghan with white fabric and white yarn and just loved it so I was anxious to see how red fabric and red yard would look. I love it!
I used up the last of my Simply Soft Party and found to my surprise that the red wasn't nearly as difficult to work with as the green had been. I still won't buy it again, though. The pattern started out to be "Christmas Joy" from Monk's Cloth Afghans for Christmas but ended with the first row.
As I was weaving in the first row (2 of them), I was thinking how you can't pull out mistakes when you're using this particular yarn because there's too much chance you'll break the glitter thread. It wasn't until I started the second row that I realized I'd made a mistake on the first row. I didn't hesitate long before deciding to carry on and make the pattern my own. I often do that instead of going back and correcting mistakes unless it really matters.
Because I wanted only the red yarn on this runner, I had to improvise again with the pattern because I didn't have enough yarn to complete enough rows.
I improvised with the pattern again at the ends because there wasn't enough room to make a large "V" so I created a small "V". One day I'd like to do a project and follow the pattern properly but with this runner I did what I could. And I like it!
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