Octagon #7

Last night I completed the seventh octagon. The colours are Fondant, Mustard, Spice, Pistachio, Duck egg, Storm blue, and Buttermilk. This one didn't have too many mistakes - possibly only a couple of counting errors on single crochets which would get corrected on the next round.

I took the first six outside yesterday for a photoshoot on the glass patio table.

Filling in with some of the granny squares.

When the stitchers were here on Tuesday, I remembered I had crocheted this afghan YEARS ago using acrylic yarn (probably worsted weight) I bought at the now defunct Zellers. It's pretty big. All the centres were done with yellow yarn. I whip stitched the hexies together and didn't leave a ridge. That worked well because all the hexies had the cream colour as the outer round. However all my octagons have different outer colours so I'm even further convinced I'll seam them together invisibly - using a type of ladder stitch.

I remember making it and then deciding to enlarge it. Because I hadn't added a border, it was easy to just add more hexagons. It's been folded up in a closet all this time. 

I have nothing on my calendar for today so will probably crochet another octagon. I might even do some stitching. 

I hauled out a UFO on Monday at stitching - Teresa Kogut's 'Newcastle Bouquet'. There isn't a 3 row shaded area to easily stitch from one page to another so I need to make a working copy of the pattern and tape some of the pages together. Photos will follow...