Exciting Mail Today

The LoveCrafts yarn for the Persian Tiles project arrived from England today - only a week after I ordered it.

First peek into the parcel:

The scrumptious colours stacked up. These are all 100g balls. The only one missing is Vintage Peach which didn't show in their inventory. Still need to pick up a couple of Patons Astra in a peach colour.

I started crocheting the first granny square with the Lucia Dunn colourway.

It's not perfect but I have made a couple of improvements in my technique for future ones.

The pattern has a hook change for the last few rounds. This one went a little better but for one of the rounds, I grabbed the wrong size hook. 

There are even more changes of hook size on the octagons. I am going between Janie Crow's pattern, Lucia Dunn's colour changes, and the chart. The only place the hook changes are indicated are on the written pattern. I have circled those spot and hope I'll remember to switch at the right time.

Today was also Day 3 of the online Sashiko Challenge. I didn't have time to watch the whole video this morning (I hurkle-durkled to a ridiculous hour). But I got caught up during the live Zoom chat this afternoon.

The crosses are between the boxes on the front,

and over most of the boxes on the back. 

Perfection was not attained but I'm not a perfectionist so all is good. In some areas we need to wiggle the needle between the two layers but I see I caught the lower layer in one spot. Oh well.
I think tomorrow we do the diagonals. 

Something unusual happened yesterday. I got a notification from Blogger that my post was put behind a warning:

This post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content as outlined in Blogger’s Community Guidelines.

I have no idea why this post was flagged as no specific reason was given. I assumed it was for using the Japanese term for the project - a flower cloth. The the second word in the term kinda looks like the f-word. I removed the term and updated but the warning still appears. I have no idea what could be the sensitive content. Any ideas?

I'm hoping subsequent posts will appear as normal. I tried to find out more details or appeal their decision but haven't figured out how to do that. Perplexing...