For our WI's annual entry into the craft competition at the Fenland Fair, I was persuaded to crochet the Saturn V. The pattern is pretty cool and so is the subject, but nevertheless I had a bad attitude to this project, probably because of the cheap acrylic yarn in my stash that had to be used. My white yarn was so cheap that it showed the darker stranding inside it. Also, crochet stitches don't align on top of each other like knitting ones do, rather they are shifted about 1/4st to the right. Therefore, the vertical black blocks look like they are twisting clockwise around the rocket (they are). No idea how the designer avoided this fate - vigorous blocking perhaps?
Anyway, it made it back to be stuffed wonkily into Baby B's toy bucket, to look comically bent at me whenever I see it. Banana rocket. At least that bit makes me smile.
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