Crochet-Along Clue 3: Spoilers and Photos

[Shandeh]

Great pictures Shandeh!! Between yours and Type1mom's with the stitch markers, I should be all set to correct my first attempt and tackle the rest. It is very helpful to me to see how it is supposed to look at each round, so I know where perhaps mine fell off the track (silly round 5 with those hiding ch1 spaces)

I'm glad my pictures help! I was thinking about it last night as I was working, and decided that a photo of each round might be a good idea.

[Carolee]

cool, it looks like a snowflake

Thats what I thought to, might use that in the futer

[karenarp]

Out of curiosity I weighed my motifs from clue 2 and 3. Actually more out of necessity I weighed them, I wanted to know if the little bit of the end of a ball would be enough to make another motif. I also wanted to know if clue 3 used more yarn than clue 2- I really want to make clue 3 in place of clue 2 on my second CAL. My first CAL will be the actual design but I did not like the look (it worked just perfect for me so it wasn't a size thing) so I did not want to make it for the second afghan.
So, long story short, clue 3 weighs less than clue 2. 2 was 34 grams and clue 3 was only 30 grams. So now I do not have to worry I will use up more yarn than called for when I substitute motifs!

[dcrozier]

Thank you for a great idea I am seeing silver wrapped white yarn on midnight blue background for Xmas. Maybe even a tree skirt made with them since our collection of ornaments are snowmen related. Going off to add it to project list.

I have been looking for a great tree skirt pattern--thanks to you for your silver/blue suggestion--I can picture it now!!!! I see a super excuse to make a trip to the yarn store!!!

[dcrozier]

One of these nights I will actually remember to get pictures of all my blocks.

This morning I took a couple of quick pictures of the motif I was working on with a couple of hints that I found helpful to me.

On round 4 I was having issues finding the right "remaining loops" from the chain after I made the petals. I went through each petal and on the one side only (the other side was easy to figure) I put stitch markers in each loop I was to sc in.

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Then when I started working around the petals, I would move those stitch markers to the ch1 spaces so that when I come back around to do the dc and Tr2tog, I wouldn't have to "hunt" them down.

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Not sure this makes any sense, but it's helping me with round 4 and to prepare for round 5.

Your photo and explanation are great and I plan to try it on my next one. I don't have stitch markers but will use short pieces of "other color" yarn to mark the ch 1 spaces. Thanks for the help!

[dcrozier]

I finally completed my first motif for clue 3 and noticed that it is different from other photos. I realized that on the Tr2tog in the 5th round, I actually did 2 Tr together in the first required space and 2 Tr in the second space instead of one in each side together. Since it does not seem to make any difference with the size of the motif and since I actually like the way it looks, I am planning to leave it and do the others to match. I learned more that one thing from this clue!!!

It looks beautiful!

Thanks--I am trying to get all the daily chores done so I can work on my second one.

[JazzHooked]

done....now i think I'm going to raid my stash to start a second blanket....mebbe....

[JLoriR]

I have started going to the first page of the spoilers post just to check out the cute photos. Love them!

[Shandeh]

JazzHooked, you and PattysPatterns are super fast!

[kathieh]

I finally completed my first motif for clue 3 and noticed that it is different from other photos. I realized that on the Tr2tog in the 5th round, I actually did 2 Tr together in the first required space and 2 Tr in the second space instead of one in each side together. Since it does not seem to make any difference with the size of the motif and since I actually like the way it looks, I am planning to leave it and do the others to match. I learned more that one thing from this clue!!!

wow! that does look nice! I would do the same and make them all match!