My favorite shape has always been a star – I don’t know what about it appeals to me, I just know that it does! I am really enjoying this project – it is a convergence of things that please me: crocheting, crocheting a star, crocheting for my best friend’s baby, and even Caron Simply Soft (shut up, yarn snobs! LOL – it is cheap, machine washable and dryable and super-soft).I think I am going with 10 rounds of each color – yellow in the center, band of blue, band of yellow and then a band of blue to finish. I am 4 rows into the first blue band and I really like the way the colors look together. The colors are perfectly gender neutral – I could girl it up with some purple I guess, but there is something very pleasing about the pale creamy yellow (“off-white” my ass – that is YELLOW!) and the mellow light blue. Even if I were to know what gender the baby will be, I would probably choose the blue and yellow anyway.
There were a ton of misleading instructions (if not out and out errors) in this pattern – it took a while for me to trust my instincts over the pattern, but the finished project will be the better for it. There are a few stitches in the first rounds that look a bit off after following the pattern as written, but probably things that only I or another crocheter will notice. I am torn between finishing this one, gifting it to someone else and starting fresh on a new one (without trusting the pattern as written) for Liz’s baby and keeping this one intended for Liz’s baby because that is who it was for at the start. I guess I will decide when it is closer to done.
