Knit-Along Clue 1: Spoilers and Photos

[Tiffanna]

Finished my first two squares. One for each color combination. My 5 year old son loves them, and since this is for him that's the most important thing.

I just hope I can manage to get one more done before clue 2 comes out. I have a feeling I'll be working on clue 1 for awhile longer. Hopefully the next couple of clues for both the CAL and KAL will go fairly quickly so I can catch up on these.

[lifetimeknitter]

Finished my first two squares. One for each color combination. My 5 year old son loves them, and since this is for him that's the most important thing.

I just hope I can manage to get one more done before clue 2 comes out. I have a feeling I'll be working on clue 1 for awhile longer. Hopefully the next couple of clues for both the CAL and KAL will go fairly quickly so I can catch up on these.

Love the colours! So vibrant!

[PioneerKnitter]

do we block them ourselves in terms of how we want the colors to match or will it be part of the clue somewhere along the way?

I just did it this way because of the size of my board. I remember from my past quilting experience that there are a lot of different combinations with this type of square.

[K1P1quebec]

The end is in sight! Only half a square left to go! Almost there.....

Looking at how little yarn I have left here - no wonder my hands are getting numb! We will have used up nearly 4 skeins of the 13!

[CraftyDianne]

Only on my 3rd square and the first will need yo be redone, it is too small - 8" but I made the 2nd with bigger needles and it is almost 9.5", my colors are greek sea with butter and sundrift

[CraftyDianne]

sorry, had a typo- yo was suppose to be- to

[yarn4deb]

Help! what am I doing wrong. After finishing the 2nd half of my square I got a kite shape, think I might have missed doing some decreases. I ripped out the purple half and re-did it writing out how many rows and what the stitch count should be after each row of decrease. It still came out a bit off but much better than my 1st try.

So my question, am I reading the pattern right that after increasing to 55 stitches there is one more row knitted to complete the repeat the 2 rows 24 times, then change color and the decreases should be worked on the same side as the increases. After working down to 5 stitches there is also a row of knit to again get it to the correct side for doing the final rows of decrease???

I am using yarn I had not the Waverly.

[Shandeh]

I am slow with the decrease/increase square. Perhaps I can just knit a 55 stitch bi-color square?? Would that mess up the afghan? Is anyone doing that? I mean- it takes me 4 mins per row average, and there are 100 rows, so it is taking me approx 4-5 hours a square. And to make 8 will take me 40 HOURS. Wow. Or! Should I challenge myself and do the diagonals. Hmmm. . . . .

You DEFINITELY need to make the square on the diagonal. Otherwise, when you put the squares together, the design will be all wrong.

[Shandeh]

I am half done with my third block, but even though my swatch came out good, my first block was one inch small, so I have gone up one needle, and was wondering if I could frog just my second color, and add some rows in the first color, and add the second on again. I hate to frog the whole block, but need to make it bigger.

That's a good idea!

[Shandeh]

Does anyone know if there is a way to save these videos to your computers? I am worried the videos will be taken down before I even have a chance to get started. With working full time and in college for my bachelor's degree I haven't even started yet

Bernat Yarn has a YouTube channel for all the videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/BernatYarn

I'm sure you'll be able to see them for quite a while.
And I'm also sure you can find a way to download them, since they are on YouTube.

Good luck with your degree!