oh tif,i love your mantle and the christmas stocking are the most gorgeous things i have ever seen...it makes me wish it wasn't 30 + degrees and stinking hot here...is a sc the same as what we call a double crochet?i have a feeling that over your way you have different abbr..for stitches than us...and it looks a bit like a double crochet when i looked at the close up...anyhoo, LOVE your christmas