Share a Square #1

Julie started a thread with a great idea on CAL Pals - everyone does the same patterns (voluntarily of course) for 6" squares and on a certain date we mail them to her with tags on them labeling our name. They will later be assembled into an afghan. After that she'll draw from a hat one of the tags that came off one of the squares and that person will be lucky enough to receive the completed afghan!

The first square pattern is called the "Fisherman's Ring." At first I had a bit of trouble: it doesn't tell you on that first sc after the first cable is made to sc BEHIND the cable. I did my first two in front, saw it looked COMPLETELY wrong, and saw further in the instructions to sc behind the cable. Why didn't they put that first? LOL Frog frog frog and start again with the first cable. This time it's coming out right!

After that it was smooth sailing.... until.... I noticed that I was running low on yarn. I thought I had enough on the end of the skein to do the square, but nope, I was going to be short by about half the square. So I decided to try something different. Instead of tying a knot to join the two skeins, or dropping one and picking up the other (which I just don't trust - who says it won't pull loose???) I thought I'd try out the "Russian Join Method." It made the yarn just a tad more bulky than it normally is, but nothing too bad. I don't think it's noticeable on the finished product unless you're looking for it.

For the picture, I was going to just photograph the square, but then I thought I'd bring a little color splash in to really pop the blue. :)

Can't wait for the next square pattern!