OK, OK, I may not be the smartest grape in the bunch but up til now I've never met a crochet stitch I couldn't do. Well yesterday I met my match. it was the back post double crochet. Try as I might I couldn't do this stitch. I looked it up on google for examples and photos of how to to it and ended up forgging my work at least 3 times before the yarn knotted up and I had to actually throw away about four rows when I had to break off the yarn and start over. If anyone out there has done this stitch successfully please let me know. I ended up just doing a front post double crochet followed by a regular crochet instead of the back post double crochet. It looks ok, not as pronounced as the effect they were going for but it will do. I also had to imjprovise the pattern when they told me to do two rows of front post double drochet one right after the other. You have to have a row of double crochet to work the front post double crochet into so I improvised that because I couldn't work a row of front post double crochet ingo a row aof front psot double crochet which is what the pattern was telling me to do. Any way I got it done in my own sort of way. Now it's just double crochet the rest of the way up the front.
As far as Angie's teal sweater goes, I'm about 1/2 way through the front panel. I've finished the back panel. I still have the sleeves to go. This one is taking a long time to do. I work on it while I watch tv so the time goes faster and I don't get bored. But my back and butt get tired of sitting for so long. I feel like I need to get up and go for a walk or something.
I looked at the thrift store yesterday for sweaters I could frog for yarn but I didn't find anything. I was disappointed. I thought for sure there would be something, they used to have such a large suupply of sweaters but now they don't. I may go to the other ones today to check and see if they have anyting. If for no othe reason than to get me out of the house.
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