the good and the bad

After a rather long night shift  I unpicked the scarf which Lois kindly donated which contained a Double Knit Acrylic - mauve/brown combination - wool. I used a 8mm crochet hook to produce a chunky chain stitch which drew out the variety of colour combined within the wool strands.  This was extremely nice to knit with, however towards the end it started to get a bit fluffy and tugged on the hook. I believe this was due to the fact the wool was over worked as it was knitted with before. To stop any more tangling and fraying this was wound into a ball.

Using a 5mm crochet hook and 3 ply combination of red and mauve stranded acrylic wool containing flecks of orange, red and beige to chain stitch. The strands split, the flecks would fall off and although it makes a nice, tight stitch was produced from using this size hook, it was slow and required unpicking on several occasions. This wool was not nice to crochet with and has become the bain of my life. Determination is making me continue with this ball of wool, however I believe I shall upgrade to a larger hook in order to complete this wool and see if there is a difference.