Not for Florida

Carousel Capelet, how is should look.

So, I'm in Florida (hot hot hot) crocheting a woolly poncho type thing from the newly discovered (by me) Stitch Nation Collection 1 booklet. Am I nuts? Quite possibly. I couldn't help myself, I had my first Michael's experience and bought some lovely yarn (Debbie Stoller's Bamboo Ewe, a review of which can be found here). It's so soft and pretty, lovely sheen to it. The pattern calls for Alpaca Love (review here), but they didn't have that so I'm using a worthy replacement.

I've done my tension square using the suggested 5mm hook in the store & it's 1/2 an inch too small on all sides. BOO! Ah well, back to Michael's I go :-D