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Stop and Go

I got ten more hexes out of the last skein of Premier Puzzle in Backgammon that I had, so now I have to put the project aside until my latest order with more yarn arrives.

Here are the thirty-nine hexes I've finished. Once the extra skeins arrive I'll make as many more as I can and figure out that the grid count for the finished throw will be (probably bigger than I thought; maybe 7 X 9 hexes.)

In the meantime, I have a chance to test some of these free Halloween crochet patterns I found. The little ghost coaster looked easy enough.

This coaster took less than thirty minutes for me to work up. The pattern is really straight forward and well written, and the embroidery is simple enough. If you can do sc2tog and dc2tog stitches, you should have no problem with it. I might back mine with some muslin and use it for a hanging decoration rather than a coaster. :)

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