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Well here they are......42 colourful centres....4 ends each....that's 168 ends! Took over 3 hours last night to do this.....I was watching the second season of "Damages" on Netflix! Then I played with the order.....tweaked until I was satisfied. But I have to say, this is NOT going to be finished this weekend. The last two rounds of crochet are fiddly.....and you are crocheting them to join the adjoining squares as you go.....I think I've got it. I've crocheted 3 of these together and it's looking AWESOME!  

Yesterday, with the help of a knitting friend, I did some more tweaking on the shades I'm going to use for the Frances crochet scarf.... Gilt is to be replaced by Cinammon....and I've decided to add Seafarer. The idea is to make it more subtle and subdued, for an adult taste - sure! LOL! I'm going to do all of the centres first...lay them out and then start joining them together with the third shade.....I am going to finish all the ends too at this point so that when I finish the last join, it will be done - I AM THINKING AHEAD WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION! On the home front, Daisy had a wee bit of surgery on Thursday - to remove a lump that had appeared on her nose.  Daisy, being the Diva that she is, insisted that it would be worth the temporary humiliation of having a shaved nose and wearing an Elizabethan collar - to return her face to it's natural beauty! A friend recommended this cotton collar - much better (and lighter) than the plastic ones they give you at the vets ...

It might have been me that bought the Learn to Crochet book....after all, I was a teen in the 60's and young and stylish in the 70's......and crochet was the in thing! I spent a few minutes on Pinterest.....don't you just LOVE Pinterest! and found these photos of vintage crochet.  Gosh takes me back to wearing hot pants to work in the 70's with a crochet type top (that I'd bought) and platform shoes.  OMG!!!! No, I don't have any photos to share! LOL!! Boy we sure loved bright colours back then....and I'm betting that most of the yarns used here were acrylics.  I love that photo of Bonnie and Dempsey - anyone remember them? Today's Crochet can still be wild and wonderful, but it can be subtle and sophisticated. The Frances scarf, originally designed for children, is done in 6 wonderful shades of Rowan Felted Tweed.....I had thought that I was going to change the shades up a bit, but with some swatching, have returned to the originals. This is just the st...