The first kitty-vigil square

[firecat]

I'm finding crochet very calming while I'm waiting to find out what's wrong with my sick kitty. I'm working on squares for a sampler afghan.









This is my favorite square so far. I love the ribbed texture and the stretchiness.

I'm running out of this yarn so I bought a bunch more, at annoying old Joann's, in blending colors. It's very cheap yarn, $2.50 for - 12 oz? - and I suppose the end product won't stand very many washings, but it works well enough.

I also bought some soft, fuzzy Lion Brand skeins to make a scarf or something.

Comments

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[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

Generally it's wise to do a gauge test strip with each square, there should be instructions on how to do that in your book.

What I found when I first started was that with the different stitches I was using different tension on the yarn (the way I held the yarn and "fed" it into the hook) and that caused differences in the pieces.

I still sometimes get slightly off sizes when I do patchwork pieces. Generally I just throw rounds of single or half double crochets around the outer edge with each square to make them the same size. Remember to do at least three stitches in each corner when you go round the corners so that they don't warp. Also, if they are as little as 1/4 inch off all the way around or less, you can stretch them when you piece them together and it's no big deal.

You can probably rinse the squares in cold water and then use pearl head pins and pin them to a corkboard or an ironing board to stretch them out some, I've had good luck with that with Red Heart.

[firecat]

Thanks, that's very helpful! Squirrelling it away. :-)

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[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

LOL..maybe I should write a book? Tee hee!!

[firecat]

Well, I'd buy it!