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OK, having looked at the picture, round 1 works along your chain and then the bit in brackets works around the end of it, in that last chain loop, so that you then end up working along the bottom of the chain, rather than turning it to work back along the row.

Soupy I've tried it and I'm either doing it wrong or I don't like the leaf it has made!

TBH, it makes no sense to me now I've read it again. I assumed you made a chain, did one "hill" kind of shape on one side of the foundation chain and then one on the underside.

Hang on... that is what you're doing... the "in second chain from hook" refers to the 2 chain you've just made. So, in that last chain you do 2HDC, then chain 2... then you SC in the 2nd-from-hook of those chains (this forms the point of the leaf) and 2HDC in the original last chain.

Chain 5 sl together

Rnd 1 - sc in 2nd chain from hk, hdc in next, dc in next, work (2hdc in last, ch 2, sc in second ch from hk, 2hdc) in last ch. Working now on the opposite side of foundation ch. dc in next, hdc in next, sc in last.

It works fine. Make a chain of 5. Skip the first chain, single in the 2nd, half double in 3rd, double in 4th.

In the 5th and last: 2 half doubles, chain 2, skip the 1st chain again and make a single in the second. Then, in the 5th of your original chain, work 2 more half doubles.

Then, in the "wrong" side of the original chain, work a double, then a half double, then a single to match the first side. Finish off with a slip stitch.

I make mine similarly - work a row of stitches, picot in the middle of the cluster at the opposite end, work a matching row of stitches down the other side

Any good?

Grr, strikeout fail! sl together

Thank you, just couldn't get my head round it, off work ill so probably shouldn't be doing it anyway!! I also found this leaf pattern which has worked well and I have done a chain up the middle as suggested in the other one!! Now onto the flower...

Saw this and had to share! Who has the time or inclination for things like this?!

Now, that is a house with no small boys in.

Seriously?!!

I have a new problem (absolute beginner here). I'm just practising stitches in rows (a bit dull but DD is getting lots of Sylvanian blankets!). I'm doing half treble at the moment (I think - using an American site which calls it half double). I can do the stitch, but am finding myself increasing at the end of some rows. So my 'blanket' is very wonky. I can't work out where I'm going wrong. Probably very hard to diagnose on line!!

Easy peasy lemon squeezy, Belinda! You're starting your row in the wrong stitch. Make sure you ch 2 to turn then go into the first st of the row not the 2nd st of the turning ch :)

Okay. Thanks. I thought I was doing that though. I'll check really carefully. What about at the end of the row? Do you think I could be increasing there somehow?

Only if you're making a stitch in the last of the previous row and then another one in the turning ch of that row??

Hmm, not sure. I'll have a go again with a really short foundation chain so it's easier for me to count. Thanks.

Yeah, practise with 10sts. You can always make 2 and call them dolls house curtains :o

OI HOOKERS!!!!!

I need your help!

Firstly and most importantly, I haven't been round a lot recently (and am serial namechanger, has Pidj chick made an appearance yet?

Ok, now the help. I am a rather shoddy knitter but fine with a hook. I want to crochet a Clanger for the man who has everything's birthday (not dh, family friend) but I cannot find a pattern for crochet only sodding knitting.

Can anyone find one or be super clever and tell me how to do one? I have lots of amigurumi patterns so i'm sure I can make the main body part, it's just the turning it into a head and then the pointy nose part.

Please, can anyone help?? This chap doesn't want or need anything (he is 60yrs old, he can buy anything he needs) but I know a clanger would tickle him

Hi Grace, what about this armadillo pattern? You could make his nose a bit longer?

PS. No pidj chick yet :)

Great idea PIG but he's not quite the right shape clanger

Pidj - how long now?!

3cm dilated, posting from a hospital bed! May be unable to help on this one...

3cm dilated, posting from a hospital bed! May be unable to help on this one...

Ooohh!

I reckon the Clanger head would be fairly similar to Peppa Pig. Slightly more tapering at the nose end and less bollocky at the head part. More of a gradual change from nose to head.

Either that or adjust a pointy mouse for the head plus a amigurumi body from something else.