Project update

Fuzzy Bunny Slippers - In my rush to finish the butterfly wrap and perpetual procrastination when it comes to finishing things, these cute little things have been put aside. All I need to do really is to sew on the buttons. But then, I have to use a smaller needle because my tapestry needle won't fit through the holes on the buttons. Well, if I do that I probably can't use the embroidery thread I bought because it's too thick to fit through the eye of a smaller needle. Yeah. It's just too much hassle when I have the butterfly wrap to finish. Most likely, I'll just sit down and get it over with this weekend once I have a sizable chunk of free time and no pressing need to work on the store website.

Hearts - I did completely finish 4 of these. However, I wasn't entirely happy with the eyes I embroidered. I think I will get some beads for future hearts. The 1 heart I didn't like the most, I took with me to my aunt's home in Temecula for her cat to play with. Again, as long as I can crochet my butterfly wrap on the train, making more of these will be on hold. Oh, and I need to go to Ikea to get some suitable jars. Once I have something I can watch fill up, I'll have more of an incentive to make more hearts.

Butterfly Wrap - I finished the back, front right, and front left partial panels yesterday after work. While I was waiting for Lawrence to get off work at the Maserati dealership, I seamed the pieces at the shoulder and connected them at bottom by starting the waist detailing. They have these nice plush leather seats at the dealership that were very comfy to lounge and crochet in. The waist detailing is basically 4 rows of rectangular holes that the ribbons will be woven through.

While working on the front partial panels, I ran into an issue. It took me a while to think it through but I think there's an error in the pattern. I've only looked at it for the L size, so I don't know if it applies to the other sizes (I think it does). First off, the back partial panel is supposed to be 28 rows when finished. The left front partial panel is 21 rows for the rectangular portion with 8 rows of shaping. This gives you 29 rows (21+8=29?), although the pattern indicates there should be 28 rows. The right front partial panel is only 20 rows for the rectangular portion, and 8 rows for the neck shaping, and it indicates there should be 28 rows total. I think somewhere either before the shaping or on the first row of the shaping, the instructions skipped a row. The first row of the neck shaping says to chain 7 and shl in the next ch-1 sp. That only makes sense if I crochet in the pattern to the end of that row because the start is a 3-dc motif while the end is the shl motif. I did that to keep with the patterning, and so I end up with an extra row, or 29 rows. This makes sense since the left front panel turned out to be 29 rows as well. However, this means I was short 1 row on the back panel, so I went and crocheted an extra row. I love that about crochet - try doing that with knitting!

This was the only big problem I had with the pattern. There were some other things I would nitpick at, specifically consistency in wording and punctuation but it was nothing I couldn't figure out. Although...I think the Main Body Trim section was accidentally printed twice. I'll have to e-mail them at StitchDiva to get some clarification on this. If anyone reading this is working on this pattern and having trouble, let me know and I'd be happy to help.