Priceless Squirrels

I went into the sewing room yesterday with really great intentions.  Other people would get down to sewing if they touched fabric and while I laid fabric out, and checked how much I had, I did not cut and I did not sew.  

I was distracted.  

I was in the fabric bins and as I was putting things away, I pulled out a bit of a kit I made for a miniature project.  I meant to simply pull it out and put it where I could do it sometime, but you know how it goes.  Before you could say squirrel, I was off.  

I wanted to see if I could make a tiny granny square with a single thread of embroidery cotton and which of my smallest crochet hooks would work.  

I have had the middle hook, the .75 mm hook for decades.  When I crocheted as a teenager, I once made a doily using it and size 30 crochet cotton.  It was very very fine.  I only ever made one at that scale and settled in to a nice size 20 thread and a 1.25 mm hook for doilies.  The top hook is a 1.00 mm hook and the lowest is a .60 mm hook that I got for beads in shawl knitting.  

That tiny square was very difficult to do.  My hands shake just enough to make that extremely fine scale work impossible.  If I had someone to start it for me, it might be different.  I think it would be okay, once there was more fabric to hang onto.  

Maybe it would be easier if I knit?

My smallest knitting needles are really tiny.  

I have no idea  what the tiniest is but it is quite fine.  The circular is a 1.5 mm needle and even that is very small.  

I gave it a shot.  

Cast on was easy enough.  The next row was a bit more challenging but once I got to the third and fourth row, I was cruising.  

Look!  Actual garter stitch ridges!  Just for fun and to give you an idea of the scale, this is the garter stitch toe of the sock on 2.5 mm needles.  

That really brings the scale of this to life.  

I know it isn't much but I proved to myself that I could do it.  That shaky hands, be darned, I could still do it. 

I have no idea if I will ever actually make the afghan I wanted for my miniature house but I'm not sure that is the point anymore.  Just the knowledge that I can do it is priceless.