Team Hooker - Welcome to the Hotel Crochetfornia

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Soup dragon - what on earth is blocking?
Will go and check to see if I kept any of the the paper wraps from the wool. It's made from Jenny Watson pure merino dk

There is some stretch in the seam but not much.
I kept it quite tight when doing the seam. Probably tighter than when I was hooking the squares.

Thankyou v much, , I am beyond proud....lumpy or not!

Oh, it's pretty much ironing :) you're meant to stretch it out to how it should be, pin it, make it damp and iron it to set. Or something like that - I rarely bother. I think you can just make it damp and pin it out flat to dry too.

Tobermory, it's lovely.

I agree that blocking will cure the bagginess. Mind you, I'm a very lazy hooker and very rarely bother

The blanket I made for dd was very odd after I'd joined it together. I washed it and hung to dry, it was much flatter after that

I'd like to have a bash at this but how do I make it into a square at the end so I can use it for the Woolly Hugs projects?

Also I cannot master the chainless foundation for love nor money! I just can't see where the two loops at the bottom on the stitch are! The ones I'm supposed to go into for the next stitch! I just can't see them!

I would either repeat the instructions to add rows and make a giant one, or make enough for a blanket then join at the sticky out bits and leave the edges wiggly [hsmile]

Never attempted a chainless foundation so no help, sorry

Hullo hookers!

Can I join please? Crocheting is keeping me sane whilst on ML. My mum taught me last year and I haven't stopped since really.

Currently attempting a nativity scene, snowflakes, little fat robins, and a snood for me (latter not going very well).

That's an impressive WIP list!

New inmates recruits! Hurrah!

The chainless foundation is easy... once you've got it fixed in your mind. I posted links to the tutorials I used when I finally got it - have I posted the links for you before Somersault or was that someone else? I'll go search them out anyway.

Hmm.... I seem to have used as it's the link I put on MN when I first learnt. But I don't recognise the video as I learnt to do a treble crochet one first, not US SC ANyway, watch the video - it uses really fat yarn so is easier to see where you are sticking your hook.

The key seems to be that the first part of the stitch forms the chain and then you form your SC/DC/TC/whatever. I constantly run the mantra "One for the chain... TC" in my head whilst I'm doing it :)

I make sure I hold onto the chain I've just made ( between thumb and forefinger of my yarn hand) so I know where to stick my hook for the next stitch otherwise it can be hard to spot.

I'm feeling a bit smug, put an Amigurumi pattern up for sale on Ravelry and 5 people have bought it already!!! GTFI!!!

My mum came back from holiday in Scotland and brought me some v expensive wool from Johnsons Mill. It's so pretty I have just been looking at it and fondling it. Too nice for anything I can make hehe

[applause]

Some yarn is just meant for looking at IMO.

My tip for the chainless foundation is once you've started finish the whole chain, if you have to stop leave the hook pushed through the next chain. Otherwise it's hard to see which side of it you're working on when you restart and you can end up with a twist in it.

Made a granny square this afternoon for the first time in decades since primary school. My nan was a hooker and taught me a few tricks. Had a quick refresh on Youtube and the result is on my profile.

I have knitted for the blankets in the past but I want to crochet for cupoftea's blanket. Do you experts think it's good enough?

Be brutally honest.... I want to get good at these!

Pastabee, your profile isn't public. I don't need to see it to know that it's more than good enough - it's been made with love

Aaah thanks purple. I know you say that but I'm not even sure I've done the stitches right!

Think I've changed my settings now but I'm using DH's fancy pants ipad and I usually use my phone so I may have been overwhelmed by the complexity of the full site!

My nan was a hooker and taught me a few tricks

[weeps]

Your square is lovely :)

So it looks right zombie? I can practise to get it nice and even if I know I've got the basic layout right.

I'm serious, love is enough. We don't waste squares, Knotty and I will rescue anything - stitches coming undone, knitters who ran out of time to learn to cadt off, squares my tape measure swears blind are 8 or 5"... They've all gone onto blankets

My favourites are always the ones with dropped stitches and odd patches of stocking stitch. The sheer amount of effort required to learn to knit from scratch simply to provide comfort to a family... Catches me at the back of the throat every time

ooooh, I've only just noticed this thread! May I join you? I'm an enthusiastic hooker, at the moment I've got one hexagon blanket going that I add every now and then from my late mother's stash of yarn, an almost finished shrug thing that I just need to sew together (sigh, been sitting there unfinished for about 2 years now...) and I am also making lots of little circles with the ultimate plan of making a necklace like this one.

For those of you who wonder what blocking is, here is a very handy tutorial

Happy hooking! :)

purple the squares are the only projects I complete!! It would take me 100 years to make a blanket of my own.