My Spring Time Tapestry Doily

Threads: 5 different colors

Base color (BC) = Artiste 100% Acrylic crochet thread, color 05 Natural

Tree stem (TS) = Artiste 100% Acrylic crochet thread, color black

Dark leaf (DL) = Artiste 100% Mercerized Egyptian Cotton, color 117 Grass

Light leaf (LL) = Artiste 100% Mercerized Egyptian Cotton, color 118 Snow pea

Flower color (FC) = Aunt Lydia’s crochet thread, Fashion 3, color Scarlett

Hook: 1.8mm (#6) crochet hook

Final size: 9.5” in diameter

Ideally, I should use the same weigh yarn or thread to knit or crochet any project. However, when I only

have limited choice, I need to be creative.

Unfortunately I did not have appropriate threads to make it. In addition, I did not have the same

colors choice as the original picture. So I decided to work with what I have and be creative.

It’s all coming down to stitches tension and how to hide the carry over threads.

I chose to crochet with knit stitches because I like the effect on this piece comparing with the

regular single crochet stitches.

Another challenge I faced was how to manage so many color threads at one time. Haha. As you

can imagine and picture my frustration. Especially when the moment I found my irreversible

mistakes after several pattern repeats and had to rip stitches off. I could just thinking of one

Chinese slang, 腦細胞死了好幾百個 (In English, it means hundreds of my brain cells died.)

Because I did not have the same thread thickness for all threads, at the end, it became quite wavy.

Therefore, I decided to make a stitch adjustment to reduce the waviness. In addition, block the

piece after completing it.

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