Posted By Liz on November 25, 2010
Here after known as Missing Stitches day
Now, at the top of his arm pits, I have all the stiches, the 3 yellow segments are correct in width, as is the width of the black bits.
By the first row of his chin, I am 2 stitches short in the yellow. First reaction – Ive stuffed moving in of the black, nope the black bits are correct width, as is the size of the white surround. If you expand the picture you can count, for yourselves. If you spot my missing stiches, man, please tell me! half of tonight was wasted looking for them. Its somewhere in the 20 odd rows between armpit and chin, somewhere in the yellow section, normally the stiches kinda look like F’s eg a bar on the left with an = part for the rest of the stitch, when you change colours (my usual place to miss them) its more easy to join two together, similarly to find joined ones usually you’ll see a kinda N for 3 stitches where 2 bars join.. so normally once you know to look for them, you can find them but I’ve looked and looked and Im going to go to bed through insanity.
If you find them please, please, please, please email me with where!
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Posted By Liz on November 24, 2010
So, by my count, I’m half way, I’ve done 105 rows!
As you can see, getting there 
Time passed very quickly while working tonight, something to do with dog interruptions again I fear.
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Posted By Liz on November 23, 2010
Well, I confess no picture today, I only did 15 rows, so, barely worth the effort. Sorry.
I may have miscounted the rows completed yesterday, I think I had done 81, not 51.. which would have placed me at 139 to go which looks right. I now have 125 to go. Serves me right for not realising my rules were still in cross stitch mode and it thinks theres 14 stitches to the inch.. I wish, its more like 3.5
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Posted By Liz on November 21, 2010
Well, today I believe I have made it upto the 51st row, so that should be around 7752 stitches! It measures 21” now, about 1/3 the way up. I swear I did this most of the day, but there was 90 minutes off when my Dad rang, and then dog interruptions, various other things, so, probably around 6 ish or so hours, technically it was 12, but, I know I wasnt doing it all day I did some other stuff.
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Posted By Liz on November 21, 2010
I heard a request for a blanket, so Stephanie, this is the diary of your blanket. Day 1, around 6 hours.
May not look much yet, its about 9” long. 29 rows. Thats 4008 stitches! (let alone the few mistakes I had to unwind and go back and correct. sigh)
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Posted By Liz on November 15, 2010
So, I havent finished sewing the ends, but I started – however, I only started this friday! If I hadnt gone to class yesterday I probably would have finished the sewing of ends. Its not a great picture, but its OK.
Its 33” by 25”
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Posted By Liz on October 23, 2010
Well, its finished. Its 34” square, its not a great picture but
To me, the “back” is actually nicer than the front, its pretty warm though so it will be good in winter. The person I was going to give it to, doesnt want it, and not because they dont like it – they didnt even see it.. pfft.
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Posted By Liz on October 13, 2010
Oh, quick post, heres some interesting links. Types of crochet
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Posted By Liz on October 13, 2010
Well, a quick update, its now 24″ square, so double the size it was, it chews through wool pretty quick, but it does make a nice thick blanket. I am however, beginning to dislike it, I wouldnt want one of my own. However, for someone else? Sure, if I do do another, I might try it with double crochets, not trebbles though.
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Posted By Liz on October 9, 2010
Firstly, do read that correctly unlike me who read it as Bovarian (as in cow)
So, its not an easy to see picture, but, for scale, this is 12” square.
The astute amongst you will see that its in short a catherine wheel stitch but joined with back posts – its fairly easy, I have been working on this for some of the afternoon and not entirely pushing hard at it – watched too much tv, had a guest pop round, took dogs for walk, so a 12” square isnt bad progress.
Its not a hard stitch to do, you get used to it. it does seem to make a rather dense fabric, so, should be nice and warm when done.
Dont know what I will do with it when its complete. Or how big I will make it. While this is currently done in US trebbles, I do think doubles would have worked for a nicer finish, trebbles are just a bit long and wishy.
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