Team Hooker - One pointy thing is better than two

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Quiche-tastic.

Izzit safe for me to come 'home' now?
She put her gun away?

She actually and quite genuinely started it Pidj.

You mentioned the K word. On a Hooker thread FFS! [sheesh]

Children!

You started with the name calling! :o

Pfffffffffffffffffffffft :p

Having been a bit lazy for the last two weeks I need to make some serious inroads into project-blanket today

Hello lovely hookers :o I'm finally getting round to finishing my stripey blanket (I kind of used an attic blanket as inspiration and then kind of made it up as I went along) but not sure how to finish it off.

Basically it's four colours - grey, navy, cream & turquoise, with big chunks of grey and navy at each end then thin stripes of the others the whole way through with thicker sections of navy every 15 stripes or so to break it up a bit.

I need some ideas for the border. I'd quite like to do a (navy?) border but not sure how to go about this with the side edges (and can I sew in the loose ends as I go easily this way?), and think I'd like to do a slightly wavy edge (or is that too girly?), OR (sorry for all the questions!) do I take the (for me) easier option and use a navy cotton bias binding thingamy as a border instead?? which would also mean that I could hide where I have massive great big discrepancies in straightness of the blanket

What to do, what to do...? :)

DC around the whole damn lot of it, then worry about shells (wavy border) afterwards. The dc will hide the ends and any wigglinesses; to do the edges I just do the dc round the post of the last stitch iyswim - bit like FPDC but from the side. If you use bias binding you'll lose the give of the blanket.

For shells around the edge you need to know how many stitches there are eg: if you have 66 stitches, your shells will be dc-htc-tc-tc-htc-dc... but something this complicated only works properly if you worked it out at the beginning and you each edge is divisible by x, where x is between 4 and 7 I have never bothered and tend to just fudge it, as does the rest of the sane world Easier to calculate is a picot border - #dc1, (dc, ch2, sl st in previous dc)# around :)

Thanks Pidj, I knew I could count on you to befuddle help me with my dilemma. I did count the chain and consequent stitches (divisible by 3), but not the length of the darned thing. As it's stripes, it would be very easy to count (and I think my crocheting is (ahem) wiggly enough to bodge iron out any imperfections) so will have a go at the sideways FPDC (I googled it, so I know what you mean this time :))

Glad to know others fudge it too :)

I tend to decide how many stitches I want to do in the end of each stripe and shove them wherever they'll fit :o

Ooh I think I love you both ♥ ~ they're the kind of answers I was hoping for :o

And yes, mmmmh to fudge (I have a dead easy recipe for fudge-like chocolate yumminess if you're in need...) :)

I'll let you know how I get on. 11 more rows until I can start on the border...

oops! the &#9829 was a little heart when I typed it

Well I think I've caught myself back up a bit - 4 and 1/4 squares made today in and amongst

We having fudge?

I finished it!! Hurrahhhh! Linky here if you want to have a nosey (but only if your eyesight is poor and doesn't spot all the mistakes :))

I gave up on the shells - thought I'd give them a go another day if needs be, but my fudging skills were all used up by the end of the edging.

Hey, it's no masterpiece, but I like it :)

flubba your blanket is gorgeous as is your DS. I love the colours you used.

Flubba that blanket is lovely.

Fabulous!