Knit-Along Clue 1

[cookiev38]

I ordered my Waverly yarn from Bernat on 2/14 and am still waiting for the mailman to deliver Hopefully by next Tuesday I'll be able to pick it up from the Post Office. I live in Puerto Rico and there are no stores here that sell suitable yarn and since I've nothing suitable for an afghan in my stash, I had to do the mail-order thing. I've been itchin to do an afghan and what better way than to do it in a mystery-type setting.

[joyousday]

I ordered my Waverly yarn from Bernat on 2/14 and am still waiting for the mailman to deliver Hopefully by next Tuesday I'll be able to pick it up from the Post Office. I live in Puerto Rico and there are no stores here that sell suitable yarn and since I've nothing suitable for an afghan in my stash, I had to do the mail-order thing. I've been itchin to do an afghan and what better way than to do it in a mystery-type setting.

Hope it arrives soon! I know your fingers are itching!

[cookiev38]

As a matter of fact, they are itchy

[dot]

ok I now have 55 sts. I need to change colour do I start to decrease that row or the next row. Do I have to make 8 square in all.

Once you have 55 stitches you knit the WS (you know how it said repeat the 2 rows? You do the increase and then you just knit). Then you add the 2nd color on the RS.

Yes we are making 8 squares total for week 1.

Thank you for the help, all most finish my first squares, then I will start the second one I will not have this done for next week oh well. I will keep working at it

[YarnYenta]

Finished 2 squares and started 3rd yesterday up until 2 am than had to give into to sleep. Now it's coffee and knitting. Having so much fun. I've been knitting for a long time but never done KAL love the whole mystery thing also. I will try to knit the rest of the 3rd and a 4th square today than since I am also doing the CAL and can't wait will try to do a few of those. If I can get my daughter to help with pix maybe I will try posting later House cleaning be damned. Knitting rules

[Tami9120]

great question... I'm still knitting but was worried that I need to purchase more yarn I'm using caron simply soft for my first KAL Michaels had only gotten part of the Waverly line and simply soft was 50% off with coupon. Soooo, I'm using that. I'm not extremely impressed with it though. I have found at least 5 breaks/knots. If I get back into town I think I'll grab another skein or two.... I just love the emotions in this blog. Wonder how I could get them for my email & fb

[K1P1quebec]

:knit: With this first clue, we used a lot of the B colour ...
So .... my question : we prepared 3 balls ... and, for me, I've used more than 2 (equivalent, because not the same yarn, but I used the conversion with the yardage), nearly 2 and 1/3
And you ???
Thanks !

Salut! J'en suis à la fin de la couleur B pour mon 4ème carré (donc la moitié pour cette semaine) et j'ai presque fini une pelote de 100 g. Donc je prévois finir presque 2 pelotes de couleur B pour la première semaine, ce qui correspond à des messages affichés avant le début pour des dames qui voulaient savoir combien de pelotes à apporter en voyage pour la première semaine (voir rubriques au sujet des quantités à prévoir).

Je trouve que c'est bcp pour la première semaine! Ma main droite à de la misère un peu! Je ne sais pas du tout comment des personnes puissent faire les 2 projets! Je suis en admiration.

[hondacivic]

Do you have to "block" if your squares come out the right size??

[knittingnana60]

I am SO frustrated!! I didn't do a gauge swatch and now I'm paying for it!! I knit my first square with the recommended size 8 needle. But it ended up being almost an inch too big! (My knitting has never been too loose before. And, honestly, I still don't think it is.) So I thought, "Ok. I'll use a size 7 needle and knit another square." But guess what!? It's a half inch too big! I'm not sure what to do. If I go down to a size 6 needle, then I've wasted my time on 2 squares. I know I can rip them out and reuse the yarn. But... Is the square too big because it's garter stitch? Should I use the squares if they end up being 10"? I don't want to run out of yarn because I'm afraid it'd be too hard to find more yarn in the same dye lot. So would I be better off to go down to a size 6 needle to see what size I get? Has anyone else gotten 9.5" squares with a size 8 needle? Just curious.

Go on down to the size 6 needle, if that is what you need to get the gauge. I am using a size 5 to get the gauge myself.

[fun2knit]

I am using Waverly and also used more than two skeins of color B and was wondering the same thing. But we might be OK since given the dimensions of the overall afghan and the dimensions of the 8 knitted squares, we have already knitted over 1/3 of the total size. If we will need more, I would like to know, too, since I want to be able to get the same dye lot at the store I purchased the yarn at!