Support thread from Arts & Crafts for the blankets

[tribpot]

We've been talking quite a lot on the main thread about getting the stitches right for a particular square with a lovely heart design in it. You need to be registered on Ravelry to see it here or with the designer's website (also free) to see it here.

The race is on to see whether any of us can complete it without going completely insane at the difficulty of some of the patterns, so we are having a (supportive) 'heart-off' this weekend to try and get it done without flooding the main thread with messages about it.

On the cast list so far are: GleamingHeels, MinnieBar and me, but all are welcome - beware though, you have to supply your own valium.

I've just recharted it to get it down to a size that will knit out to (about) 6", so have chopped out 4 rows of border from the bottom, 2 stitches of border from the sides and 2 stitches of the plain bit between the outer and inner border. So I'm starting with 29 stitches. I'd prob prefer to have 3 rows of border and 3 side stitches of border too, but as the square is going to be put into a larger blanket (unless rejected by our Blanket Mistresses Pistey and Knotty) I thought a slightly scrappy border would probably be okay.

Minnie - if you go to the 'People' tab at the top and type in the name of the person you want to follow (not that it is necessarily me you meant of course but my Ravelry username is the same as my MN one!) and then click on the user's pic, and underneath their name on the profile page is a button that says 'add to my friends'.

I meant both of you! You're both my BKFF (best knitting friends forever)

To be honest I only really use Ravelry to look up patterns, I just thought maybe I could get more out of it???

Oh my god, I've never had a BKFF before

I've joined a few groups, including my local yarn shop - partly hoping I might get to bagsy a free project for the shop at some point. But everything is quite spread out so the opposite of the newsfeed in Facebook where it lets you know about all new activity in one place. You've got to go looking for it a bit on Ravelry.

Just bumping to let my BKFFs know that we have two new blanket projects running, how desperately sad.

MrsY

Greengoose.

Team Heart is go.

I saw the bereavement threads yesterday and wondered if there would be blankets. will check the threads out when I get home :(

One of my closest friends has just announced she's pg - she's known three of her friends have very premature babies/babies with life-limiting illnesses so she is very aware of what might happen and is taking it one day at a time. On the one hand I want to reassure her, and on the other she's right, it can and does happen all too often

I might try the cable-owl as birds were mentioned for one of them. Maybe we could start a new 'knitting support' thread for MNers knitting on these two? (Well I say 'we', I really mean Trib as my advice is not up to much?)

Oh Minnie, I hope your friend doesn't feel too overwhelmed. Despite what's happened around her, and to the two poor MNers for whom we will be knitting this time, statistically the chances are extremely high she and the baby will be fine. Fingers crossed she has a trouble-free pregnancy.

In terms of support threads, Pistey has set me off looking for some patterns and I think the owl would be lovely as well. I was going to start off a new thread with some ideas from the last few blankets to get people started.

Lovely idea Tribpot, I've just started a chinese waves square, I need 35 stitches to make 6inch square. Would be good for the beginners amoungst us.