My previous experiments with crochet in printmaking used Photoshop-manipulated scans of crochet pieces, with very strong contrast. The results were sharp and crisp, and worked well with simple paper stencils as shown in the detail of Crochet trees, at left, from last year.
For this exercise, I missed out the Photoshop step and simply photocopied the crochet pieces directly onto acetate. I used the photocopier’s own controls to increase the contrast and darkness. In the process, lines were introduced into the image by the machine. I made a photostencil from the acetate. 
While the result has a softly interesting texture, the composition isn’t strong, the bright acid-lime green doesn’t appeal (and it looked so nice in the mixing pot!) and it looks feeble to me. It is definitely insufficient on its own to work as a finished print. I’m not quite sure where or how to take this further, but will think of something. It might be interesting to overprint it with the stronger crochet images from the trees series.
