Hello everyone!!
It has been a while since my last life signal on here so I figured that I should stop procrastinating and come back to give a few updates on some projects I've been working on. (Spoiler: they both didn't quite work out...)
The first one is the fair isle sweater that I had been working on. Unfortunately it didn't quite work out the way I intended it to. You cannot really see it in the picture, but the chest part is kind of... wobbly. So I suppose I won't be wearing this sweater in public.
Still, I'm very proud of it, so I will not be frogging it. It may have been a little naive of me to start out my first ever large scale crochet project with something this ambitious, but it sure taught me a lot!
The biggest lessons I've learned from this are:
- plan your entire project beforehand! (this may seem obvious, but for some reason I believed myself to be above this and able to improvise... I clearly wasn't)
- count, count, count!! Always count your stitches per row, you'll thank yourself later. I promise.
- and lastly: don't start your first project without a guide. Really.
As for the project with the epoxy resin.. that didn't quite work out either.
Unfortunately we didn't mix enough hardener into the solution, so the resin never hardened completely.
This little pendant was the most salvageable thing we made, and even that is not really usable. I will have to try and file it down a little do get off the 'sticky' part, I think.
It is a pity since we did end up wasting quite a bit of resin and also flowers. But as is the case with the sweater I crocheted, we did end up learning a bit with this project as well, and we'll make sure to use enough hardener next time!
It is not all negative though! I have been working on quite a few other projects over the last four months as well, and I'm happy to say that some of them were actually successes! I'll talk about them in a few following blog posts. :)
