Support thread for 3girlies' blanket

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Following on from our previous support thread please check in here if there's any help, particularly (but not exclusively) knitting help, you need for the squares for 3girlies, who sadly lost her beloved 6-year-old dd Flora recently.

The details of the blanket project are here and it directs you to the Crafting Guide on Woolly Hugs, with specific sections for crocheters and knitters. I am still maintaining the original document mostly because I haven't got around to separating out the stuff that's already on Woolly Hugs now from the newer suggestions we've had in the last few weeks. So please, by all means do send me suggestions for new patterns or ideas.

For those of you on Ravelry and participating in the Ravellenic games, I think squares could be entered under a number of categories such as balance beads, doubleknit boxing, lace longjump among possibly some others.

The deadline for posting is 3rd September, which is next Monday. Stressed, your contribution is very much appreciated and don't worry yourself if they're a bit late - concentrate on being well

Barbara - good luck with that! I am too squeamish to have it done, although it would be FANTASTIC to be able to see without glasses. Not sure I could manage a few days without knitting or MN though

stressedHEmum - poor you! Summer must be bloody awful knowing a wasp sting could put you in hospital :( Feel well.

Morning all

stressed Sorry to hear you have had a miserable time, hug for you X

I have posted my 3g squares .. seem to be end of holidays stressed and not catching up with much x

Jings!!! have only just realised 3rd is next monday and have just cast off my 1st square - had intended to keep it as template and do two others .... and I've only jst read guidelines properly (sorry!) and read theme is flowers - can I do a textured heart as long as it's in the correct colour, which it is? Just that was what i'd planned next, and not sure i've got any flower patterns, not easy ones anyway [bear of very little brain here]. Maybe I should do another texture as it's quick and I'm tired.

Glaikit, that first book is lovely. I have it somewhere in my midden of a house. What lovely presents to get.

Jings baskets!! Crivins and help ma boab!

I had an unexpected day to knit off work today, ds is poorly so couldn't go to the childminders I knocked up 5 of these little flowers and they look so cute! really simple to add to a plain knitted square baskets.

I am almostt finished a fairisle square from my new block book. It's from a chart trib and I've worked it out all on my own

Excellent! I might try one of those flowers tomorrow. Too tired tonight. Sadly, I am unemployable due to health at mo, so lots of knitting time. Every cloud, silver linings etc. Well done on your chart reading skills - it does get easier with practice! I've had a rummage about for that book. No clue where it is. [sad housekeeping skills] I'm sure people who know me in RL must wonder what i do all day - allegedly lots of house cleaning time. In reality, my main occupations are - in no special order - knitting, sleeping, MNing, and occasional attention to DCs (quite big ones, luckily). Good night, all.

Hearts in the correct colour are fine, Baskets. Flowers are a specific theme but other patterns also welcomed, although Knotty gets a bit funny about cats

All my 3D flowers are finished (pics on my profile) & I had such plans to post them today, but then it was raining, & my toddler was mardy, and, and, and...

I willpost them tomorrow though! :)

That's fine then. Lots of ideas! I'm allergic to cats so no cats. ha, ha!

Some bugger mentioned cats

Greetings from the paralympics! I am knitting in my spare time (when i get some). A lily is on my profile and i will put on a lily of the valley square and a pinwheel flower this evening
TTFN

Droitwich, the lily is beautiful

Thank you Knotty. Just need to whip up a plain square to put it on.
Pistey - i should be posting on Tuesday or Wednesday

Beautiful, droitwich! (And that's not a sentence you read often )

What are you watching at the paralympics?

I'm cranking up the Baby Surprise Jacket machine again as a colleague's dd has been born a month early - mum and baby are fine but it was a bit of a shock for them.

I am working in the velodrome! I am the female on the female raised platform right in the centre of the track wielding a gun

No idea where that 2nd female came from! It's been a long day and I was at the opening ceremony last night so not much sleep

So we should be looking out for a gun-totin' sleep-deprived lunatic with pair of knitting needles for company in the velodrome?

Btw, on another note, I am doing some lace from Nicky Epstein's fabulous book and I didn't realise until I'd started that this pattern calls for not 1 yarn over, not 2 (the oh-so-familiar 'double-yarn-over-of-doom' which we eliminated from the Team Heart), not 3, but FOUR YARN OVERS in a row! Un-be-lievable! Looks good, though.

That's me!
Off to get an early night as no here

Four yarn overs??! That would just look like a dishrag if I attempted it

Oh, and despite my 'no more yarn overs' protest, I have just done a square that has YOs in - it's one from 'Carla's blanket' on Ravelry/Vogue Knits - the idea is to sew very basic petals (with yarn) with the YO as the centre. The square itself is fine - very even tension if I say so myself .

However. As well as being patchy at knitting, it turns out I'm really bad at sewing, even just 16 stitches to make eight sodding petals.

This one I take it Minnie - it looks great!

I have mastered fairisle!! Now I'm off to bed!!