Crochet-Along Clue 7 (Week 8)

[ingrid]

Question ~ Will the border be such that we could add additional rows with the colors we have left over or no?

[alecsandra]

Well, I'm glad you found the missing motif, even though it will take a little extra effort to "release" it.
Let us know how your improvised border turns out!

Will do. I will try to remember to take a picture of it.

[Tiffanna]

Seaming is going really well. Over half is finished. Hopefully will finish it up pretty quickly and then just have to weave in the ends from the seaming. I've got them all tied off so I don't have to worry that they will start to come undone, but they aren't fully hidden yet.

The more I think about the design the more I end up liking it. My plan for this afghan from the start was to put it in the sun room in the home I'm having built. I think the floral pattern will offset very nicely with the sunny, yellow walls and any flowers I keep in the room or grow right outside all the windows.

[JazzHooked]

So, last night I was stitching the motifs together while watching TV, had them all in place and could not, for the life of me, find one motif I needed to add, so I thought maybe I just needed to make one more. When I get all done putting the rest together, weaving in the ends, etc. I realize that I sewed one in the wrong place. It was the one I had thought I needed to make yet. So I have this odd shape on one side and need to find the seem end so I can remove it. I guess that's what happens when I am watching TV until 2 am. LOL

I had a similar problem...I'm seaming with a horrible cold, running a high fever. I'm seaming in no particular order, just slapping it together as the color on my yarn needle requires. I finish one section, go onto another, and realize at the beginning of the previous section I attached one along the wrong side of the octagon..it's all puckered.

ggrr. rip rip rip. start over.

i'm about 3/4 done seaming. Hopefully I'll finish tonight after the kids are in bed.

jaz

[Neya]

Seamed a few pieces. Realized I seamed a piece of clue #4 where I a piece of clue #1 should have been only after I seamed, tied and weave in ends for all four sides of it. My reaction:
Then I started unraveling the seams the easiest way I could think of - with a sturdy pair of scissors. Done with two sides, looking for a nice safe piece of thread to cut on the third, and then snip - I accidentally cut right into an adjacent [wretched] clue #5!

So, I get to crochet this week!

[Shandeh]

Question ~ Will the border be such that we could add additional rows with the colors we have left over or no?

Yes. Adding more rows would work just fine.

[Shandeh]

The more I think about the design the more I end up liking it. My plan for this afghan from the start was to put it in the sun room in the home I'm having built. I think the floral pattern will offset very nicely with the sunny, yellow walls and any flowers I keep in the room or grow right outside all the windows.

Oh, that sounds so dreamy! Wish we could see a photo of that...

[Shandeh]

..I'm seaming with a horrible cold, running a high fever.

Oh no!! I hope you get better soon, my friend.

[Shandeh]

......I started unraveling the seams the easiest way I could think of - with a sturdy pair of scissors. Done with two sides, looking for a nice safe piece of thread to cut on the third, and then snip - I accidentally cut right into an adjacent [wretched] clue #5!

NOOOOO!!!!!!

[Teeyay]

AARRRRGHH!!! My seaming, which I've never done before, is BAD! It doesn't look neat at all and is uneven. I tried to take it apart and ended up cutting the wrong thing and having to redo a motif.

Gonna have to dig my heels in and try harder. I've come so far and not finishing is not an option. I have really enjoyed the process until the seaming, which is driving me crazy.

Now that I've vented maybe I can continue.