IMG_6446I quickly learned that I need good light for working with the black yarn.  I should have used my CrochetLite but I think it is the wrong size hook.  Mario is coming together nicely.  He’s got a mustache, an ear, eyes and a nose-like shape.  I made one error where I attached a peach and it should have been black so the scissors had to come out and cut it free.   Eep, not good.  I reattached everything in the right place and made sure that every square made its way to the right spot.  Do not attach squares under assumption.  There’s a bit of counting involved here and there; how many peach squares between his eyes and his mustache?  How many black squares across?  It’s more counting than anticipated and it reminded me a lot of cross-stitch.  Luckily the areas are not huge amounts of one color so the chances of me miscounting and getting lost are not so high.  I definitely do a lot of double checking after my error.  I think that tomorrow I’ll get to work with the red for his hat.