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.
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I'm not sure Joyful, I've just shown the female relatives wh live with me.
My gran said, "Well, at least you're trying"
My mum said, "Erm, what is it?" I told her and she said, "Oh, er, I'd give that up as a bad job, I think." 
I'm going to keep going, because I can see potential - one corner looks like the pictures I'm following!
Well blow me 4 rows in and I've found a mistake in the pattern! 
Wish I'd worked it out before I attempted it and then tinked it twice? deffo time for bed now.
Can I have a small fanfare please? This evening I have finally crocheted something other than a tangled mess. It's not massively far off a tangled mess but unlike my double crochet I can see vague pattern emerging from my first attempt at trebles. Think I'll keep it well hidden from Lollipop's Mum though . My left hand is killing me though. Do experienced crocheteers find that there is tension in their yarn hand or is it my sheer panic causing the problem?
On a knitting note I lurve Minnie's latest find. Poor Trib, what would we do without you?!
Thanks Minnie
Just saw your latest post about the mistake. Boo 
. Maybe I'll give you a few more days before I attempt it. Consider yourself a canary
Lovely to see some of you having a go crochet. Fantabulous 
I find a good few swear words helps when starting out
Grrr not a good idea to attempt anything other than a simple stocking stitch when you've had a shit evening and you're totally knackered. Just had to frog 4.5 inches of a square because star stitch is a bitch to unpick so I'll have to start it again tomorrow
Ooh yes, Somersaults, star stitch would be an arse to tink back - you can do it, but it would be so slow as to not be worth it for a square, I think. When you get to one of the purl three together stitches, you need to slip the star stitch stitches off the needle, pull on the yarn gently and eventually the three original stitches will appear. But as I say, you would need to do this so slowly to avoid pulling it down too far that for the sake of a square I would just rip it out.
Minnie blimey I think this pattern should have come with a health warning on. The obvious mistake in Row 4 is that there aren't enough border stitches
Row 4 ? Sl1, K1, (P5, K2, P5, K2) three times, K2
All the other wrong side (even numbered) rows start Sl1, K3.
However, you can also see the repeat doesn't add up to 13 but rather 14. This rang a warning bell and I can see that in fact, the pattern does grow a few stitches over the next few rows and then loses them again in rows 9 and 11, where you're doing 2 lots of k2togs without any compensating yarn overs. There's no way this won't be wiggly at the edges if there are rows with more stitches on than other rows! This makes me think the whole border bit needs a rethink to compensate.
Looking it again, therefore, I think the repeat is actually 12 stitches before you start row 1 one of the pattern, as you do one k2tog on row 1 but two YOs. Which would make 312=36 + 6 border = 42. And in fact row 24 (the last of the pattern has the stitch count back to 42 as well. Gargh*
So I think the original stitch count of 42 was right, but there is still definitely a mistake in row 4. To reduce the size to 6" you need 212+6=30 stitches, which suggests using 4mm, but the pattern is going to increase to 216+6=38 at its widest point (row 8).
Bog off, MummyLolli, she's doing great
Yay for all the crochet converts
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