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Thank you lovely Jules - have done your official thanks on Cup's sign up thread

Have just sent my squares

all is well trib Cheers

Just bumping for the weekend. Pistey, I have a square for the previous blanket ready to send, was hoping to get Cup's and the mini-hug done too and send in a oner shortly. Ish.

Morning all

Just to say...... <gets megaphone>

Last posting for squares for lovely Cup's blanket to be SATURDAY 1ST DECEMBER

Hopefully we will then avoid getting our woolly treasure wrapped up in the Christmas post. If this date sounds familiar to some of you, it is also the last posting for the second batch of Little Hugs. Heartfelt thanks to all Xx

Panic ye not BewitchedBotheredandBewildered - they HAVE arrived safely, our problem is we have too many threads on the go!

Your thanks are over here on Cup's sign up thread

Thank you so much X

Starting to get a bit concerned that I posted my squares on Friday, I hope they haven't gone astray.

Flo, they sound lovely, they really do

Chinese waves complete.
Now half a seed stitch square but I'm not sure I like it, maybe I should have source a picture first! Maybe squashed in with all your fancy squares it'll look ok!

And if it doesn't , we can always add a crochet border here before we hook it together.

Fraktion, if it's knitting up a wee bit small, remember that if it stretches to 6" it'll be fine

I need to find my stitch markers. Not sure where they are....

I've had to frog my fern lace square 3 times. Can't get the size right

Those are really posh trib. I have the split ring type but can never find one when I need one (blames cats)

Posh ones
cheap ones

Or you can just make a loop of contrasting yarn and use that. You just slip it as you come to it on the needle.

Morning all

Don't think I'd know what a stitch marker looked like!

<goes off to google>

Stitch markers now that's done it, u lost me! I'll blindly give it a whirl, what's the worst that can happen?!

It's fine as long as you can tell the difference between a purl and knit stitch by looking, Flojo. If not, you may want to put a few stitch markers in to keep track of the number of stitches.

Was going to do the seed stitch of hugs website next. Is this easy to keep track of where u r?!

Size wise I'm ok, I have 39 stitches, but I was just looking at it thinking another couple of rows should do it, when I realised there was something not quite right about it, and when I held it up away from me, I could see a strip across it, not sure what happened! I trying to undo til after the line but couldn't find my place so the whole lot had to go. So glad we have extra time on this! Feeling the pressure more since I got donor wool this time!

Ah , Chinese waves , I did that for expats blanket , a nightmare size wise , do not take it too heart. I can't remember how many stitches I had in the end , about 40 I think, definitely frogged at least twice before the size came right .

Well I'm off the subs bench for now. Doc reckons it is a ganglion cyst but he doesn't think my knitting would make it any worse. Phew!
The bad news is, I finally got back to my knitting and again was an inch off and had to frog it. That's 2 squares, not sure what's going on. I'm only doing Chinese waves! The first one for My5 turned out lovely, this is attempted 3 (I think I keep getting distracted and losing my place!) not much hope when I do something harder is there!

Hi all, has anyone got a nice bee motif I can work into a square for Bea's blanket please? Can't find anything on ravelry, and for the bunting I made little bee toys and sewed them on, which won't really work with a blanket, so I'm stumped!

Eggy glad you like the turquoise throw, I'd make you one, but, since my arms dropped off I can type with my nose, I can't knit with it...

No idea if it's still there. I go look when I have a spare minute. We sat on it eating icecreams in the summer. 'twas a lovely moment

Oh, sounds great, Knotty. Can we see a picture?