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The CrochetandKnitting Newsletter Saturday, December 30, 2006 To Subscribe and receive each new edition of the Newsletter sent to your Email Box, Click Here. Hello Everyone, It's been awhile since my last edition. I have been very busy getting ready for the holiday season. I'm sure that you all have been too. I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and I wish you all a Happy, Safe and Prosperous New Year. I want to thank Olly for sending me a picture of the slippers she made from my new Knitted Moccasin Slippers pattern at http://crochetandknitting.com/mocslipk.htm They are beautiful! And she never mentioned if she found any typos or mistakes in the pattern. So, hopefully, it is fine. I also want to thank Nance who let me know that the stitch count on the small version wasn't right. I only guessed it without actually having made them in that size, so I will have to go back over it sometime soon and see if I can get it right. For crocheters, I also have a Crocheted Moccasin Slippers pattern at http://crochetandknitting.com/mocslip.htm I had been crocheting and knitting up a storm over the past month, as most of you have also been doing. My yarn stash was starting to get low.... (oh no!) Then I got lucky, my sister gave me two huge balls of yarn. She had tried to learn to crochet a few years ago, but gave up. She wanted an afghan so much that she tried to learn how to make one herself. I taught her the stitches and gave her a copy of a Ripple afghan pattern because she really liked the one I had made and the Ripple afghan is a good one for beginners. She said she was too busy to work on it and couldn't get it to look like my Ripple afghan, so that is why she gave up on it. I looked at the piece she had started and it.... well.... it didn't look very good. She was crocheting too tight and missing stitches and forgetting to do the 3dc at the top of some ripples. She did make a good attempt and I felt sorry for her for not getting her afghan, so I decided that I would use the yarn she gave me to crochet the Ripple afghan and then give it to her. I haven't told her that, it's going to be a surprise. The Ripple afghan pattern I have was on a yarn label. There are Ripple afghan patterns online, but I like the one I have best. I will include a copy of it below for those who want to try it. If you are wanting to build your yarn stash up again, rememeber that you can always get great deals on yarn at my site. Up to 50% off, free shipping, etc: http://crochetandknitting.com/yarn.htm Here's a note about my Women's Crocheted Socks pattern. I made a pair for my son's girlfriend for Christmas. (She loved them, by the way. I used a very pretty blue varigated yarn. I should have taken a photo!) Her feet are small, so I had to omit 4 rows on the foot before the decreases at the toe end and they came out a perfect fit. You can get this pattern at: http://www.crochetandknitting.com/socks.htm Here is a copy of the Ripple Afghan pattern from the yarn label. RIPPLE AFGHAN This pattern calls for one color, but, you can alternate rows of 2 colors for a very pretty afghan. For example, I have made one by crocheting 2 rows of a medium blue and 2 rows of a pale blue.
SIZE: 44" (112 cm) x 60" (153 cm) + A pair of crosses is used to identify a portion of instructions in a row that will be repeated again later in the same row, or sometimes referred to later in the pattern.
sc = single crochet
INSTRUCTIONS
FOUNDATION ROW:
PATTERN ROW (NOTE: throughout Pattern, ch 3 counts as a st;
work in Back Loop ONLY of each stitch from now on):
LAST ROW: Weave in all yarn ends. Lightly steam side edges if needed to keep from curling. That is all for today. Feel free to drop by my site anytime http://crochetandknitting.com/ as well as my Crafts Forum at http://pub44.bravenet.com/forum/3703436600 Have a great weekend! Sincerely,
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