This is for both yesterday & today.
Yesterday, we went to Michael’s after work. I picked up two large skeins of Heart yarn in claret (a red) and aran (off-white), a set of steel hooks, and two balls of crochet cotton thread: DMC Traditions, size 10, in ecru and Royale Fashion, size 3 in warm rose. At home i worked a sample swatch in the claret and aran, experimenting with carrying the yarn over and alternating color all in single crochet.
This morning i wrote up my notes about the swatch. When i came home, the wire from eBay had arrived. I promptly made a disk in the metallic orange and nest a couple perodite-green glass beads in the center. Lovely! A little later i tried making the Irish rose pattern in the metallic red wire. I don’t think it’s anything like the instruction. Perhaps i’ll try the rose again in the rose thread.