63 Squares Crochet Along

[Swayde]

One of my goals for this year is to finish the 63 square ghan I started 2-3 years ago which is meant for my bed. I don't know why I keep putting it off. I love the colors of it and I was having fun making the squares. I find it very difficult to finish a project slotted for myself though with no deadline to work for.

[a_stitchintime]

:jumpyay

 

I thought everyone had gone away on this one! I really bad want to make a couple of these this year for Christmas gifts, and need to start NOW! ..but I didn't want to be aloooone:(

 

I am soooo happy that you are here!

 

q8_crochet: when do you go back to school? Your schedule for this looks pretty aggressive! good for you!

 

swayde: I know what you mean, I keep dropping the "for me" wip's everytime someone else "needs" something... maybe we can do this "together"? We can do it!!! I know we can....

[Swayde]

:jumpyay

 

I thought everyone had gone away on this one! I really bad want to make a couple of these this year for Christmas gifts, and need to start NOW! ..but I didn't want to be aloooone:(

 

I am soooo happy that you are here!

 

q8_crochet: when do you go back to school? Your schedule for this looks pretty aggressive! good for you!

 

swayde: I know what you mean, I keep dropping the "for me" wip's everytime someone else "needs" something... maybe we can do this "together"? We can do it!!! I know we can....

Right after we finish our flannelghans =)

[a_stitchintime]

Right after we finish our flannelghans =)

 

 

"you got it, dude!"

 

I'll be flannel-ghanning it next week!

C U there!

[bama_belle]

One of my goals for the year is to finally finish one of these! I'm glad I'm not the only one still working on it.

[juliegoller]

I'm working on this too. i just finished square #37. 26 to go!!! I've been working on it for a month straight. It's for the bed in our motor home so I'm trying to finish by spring. I'm using purple, yellow, and orange (goldfish) vanna's choice.

[a_stitchintime]

Cool Beans!

 

C U all next week!

[nnn]

My girlfriend and I just started a week or so ago. We've got the first four done and are now working on the next ones.

[a_stitchintime]

, nnn!

 

what colors are you using?

[a_stitchintime]

square 1 is done...

 

it is in RHSS Plum. That color always seems to speak to me lately.

I can't decide what other colors I want with it, though... maybe a Medium Thyme and Buff? I have a couple of skeins of SageMary left that would be pretty for the border

 

When I figure it out, I will let you all know... meanwhile I might be skipping around in the book to do all of the squares that call for green in my plum color.

 

hope you are having a fun day:yay

[nnn]

We're using brown, green, and a multicolored brown/green/blue thread.

[a_stitchintime]

... sounds very pretty!

 

I only did square #1 yesterday... can't get back at it till tomorrow sometime

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

[Swayde]

We're using brown, green, and a multicolored brown/green/blue thread.

 

 

Sounds a lot like mine...using a medium hunter green color, a medium country blue and a medium honey brown. The colors look fabulous together.

[a_stitchintime]

I finished # 6 (i went up a hook size to keep the size right.)

 

now i am on # 8.

 

I am skipping around to do the squares called in green first. My hook sizes are I & J. I want this to be a bedspread for a queen sized bed.

 

...still haven't decided what to do for other colors yet, but I still have time

[juliegoller]

i just finished square #50. it won't be long now...

[eyrthmother1]

Thought I would let you know, a friend of mine had on Tues. Night at our crochet group another new book for this. It was called "63 Sampler squares" and the cover afghan was all in white. very pretty.

 

Sandy

[jakesangel]

Ok I just started this last week, I am in desperate need of help with #9 I jsut cant seem to get it right!!! Please help!!

[a_stitchintime]

Ok I just started this last week, I am in desperate need of help with #9 I jsut cant seem to get it right!!! Please help!!

 

where are you getting stuck? maybe I can help!

[jakesangel]

Ok I am a dork not #9 it is #8 the chevron relief stitch. every time I do it it turns out to be a parallelogram instead of a square, I cant figure out why it is doing that I have counted and recounted but it keeps turning out wrong...what am I doing wrong and how do I change it to make it a square...I am getting really really frustrated with it.

[a_stitchintime]

Play around with where your first and last stitch go. It took me a few tries, too. The trick is making sure that you have that "last stitch" in the row, which should go in the "up chain" of the row below, if you will. If necessary, let your "up chain" (the chain you make to move up to the next row) be the first stitch.

 

I hope this helps... let me know if it doesn't, ok?

[jakesangel]

Ok thanks, I will try it and let you know.

[a_stitchintime]

I just finished #8, and it is too short (stitch width is good, though)

 

I will be :2froging it again, and trying hdc's on the sc rows...

 

see? this reconfirms my belief that this pattern book is a true test of patience...

 

Oh well, at least we are doing it together, right?!

[jakesangel]

I have done it and redone it in every way I can possibly think I really wnat to give up...I wonder if I could just change to a different square...It is ticking me off!!!!

[jakesangel]

Anybody else know of a differnt square I could use in place of this one????

[a_stitchintime]

I would skip it, and go back (or not)...

what size are your squares coming out? You could do a square search for a replacement here:

 

www.crochetpatterncentral.com

 

sometimes just walking away from it for a while does the trick... when i got stuck on a square the last time I made this ghan, I just skipped it and went back later. It seemed to work better that way.

 

so sorry you are so frustrated