A blanket for Beatrice - knitting support thread

[tribpot]

Another Woolly Hugs project has been started in desperately sad circumstances :( You will already have seen that Beatrice, the daughter of Cupofteaplease, has died. Our thoughts and sympathies are with her family.

Details of the project are http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1595636-Blanket-for-Cupofteaplease-Crafters-donors-your-help-is-needed-x, the crafters' guide is here and there is also now a Ravelry group for Woolly Hugs, thread here.

Please post if you need any help and support - as before, the Crochet Stars will be popping through, like Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice.

[GleamingHeels]

We need a woolly bench, with lovely cushions and woolly throws to make the knit/crochet injured people comfortable and in a position to cheer everyone else on

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

I want a woolly bench!

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

Hello Eggy

Hope all injured Huggers are soon recovered. Xx

[GleamingHeels]

Hands Pistey a Debby Bliss merino DK throw, am thinking a deep turquoise would be appropriate

Flojo gets a silvery blue DB, with a little padded pocket to rest the sore wrist

[GleamingHeels]

Edgar d'you want to give me a hand with this allen key.... trying to make up this IKEA bench plus wool bombing stuff

[EdgarAllansPo]

OK, you hold all the bits together and I'll hold the allen key until your arms drop off. That's how it's usually done, isn't it?

Admires the turquoise throw.

(And I like the name Eggy, thanks Pistey!)

[Flojo1979]

[KnottyLocks]

Someone yarnbombed a bench near us. So very lovely

[EdgarAllansPo]

Oh, sounds great, Knotty. Can we see a picture?

[KnottyLocks]

No idea if it's still there. I go look when I have a spare minute. We sat on it eating icecreams in the summer. 'twas a lovely moment

[GleamingHeels]

Eggy glad you like the turquoise throw, I'd make you one, but, since my arms dropped off I can type with my nose, I can't knit with it...

[OpheliaBumps]

Hi all, has anyone got a nice bee motif I can work into a square for Bea's blanket please? Can't find anything on ravelry, and for the bunting I made little bee toys and sewed them on, which won't really work with a blanket, so I'm stumped!

[Flojo1979]

Well I'm off the subs bench for now. Doc reckons it is a ganglion cyst but he doesn't think my knitting would make it any worse. Phew!
The bad news is, I finally got back to my knitting and again was an inch off and had to frog it. That's 2 squares, not sure what's going on. I'm only doing Chinese waves! The first one for My5 turned out lovely, this is attempted 3 (I think I keep getting distracted and losing my place!) not much hope when I do something harder is there!

[outtolunchagain]

Ah , Chinese waves , I did that for expats blanket , a nightmare size wise , do not take it too heart. I can't remember how many stitches I had in the end , about 40 I think, definitely frogged at least twice before the size came right .

[Flojo1979]

Size wise I'm ok, I have 39 stitches, but I was just looking at it thinking another couple of rows should do it, when I realised there was something not quite right about it, and when I held it up away from me, I could see a strip across it, not sure what happened! I trying to undo til after the line but couldn't find my place so the whole lot had to go. So glad we have extra time on this! Feeling the pressure more since I got donor wool this time!

[Flojo1979]

Was going to do the seed stitch of hugs website next. Is this easy to keep track of where u r?!

[tribpot]

It's fine as long as you can tell the difference between a purl and knit stitch by looking, Flojo. If not, you may want to put a few stitch markers in to keep track of the number of stitches.

[Flojo1979]

Stitch markers now that's done it, u lost me! I'll blindly give it a whirl, what's the worst that can happen?!

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

Morning all

Don't think I'd know what a stitch marker looked like!

[tribpot]

Posh ones
cheap ones

Or you can just make a loop of contrasting yarn and use that. You just slip it as you come to it on the needle.

[droitwichmummy]

Those are really posh trib. I have the split ring type but can never find one when I need one (blames cats)

[fraktion]

I need to find my stitch markers. Not sure where they are....

I've had to frog my fern lace square 3 times. Can't get the size right :(

[KnottyLocks]

Fraktion, if it's knitting up a wee bit small, remember that if it stretches to 6" it'll be fine

[KnottyLocks]

And if it doesn't , we can always add a crochet border here before we hook it together.

[Flojo1979]

Chinese waves complete.
Now half a seed stitch square but I'm not sure I like it, maybe I should have source a picture first! Maybe squashed in with all your fancy squares it'll look ok!