Anyway, a friend of mine was telling me about a blanket she was making her daughter. She had been working on it for over a year I believe she said. (She only had about a foot done length wise and about 3 feet width wise). Now...I picked up knitting and crochet to combat my anxiety and I had run out of things to do, so asked her what stitch she was doing, she told me she was just doing the 'regular stitch' and I asked her to show me a picture of it. It was a triple crochet and I thought, totally easy, send it my way and I'll finish it for you.
Well...
So I get it a few days later. I open it up and I see how tiny the stitches were! She was using a thread hook to do it! (dk weight yarn). I did the forehead slap thing. wth did I just get myself into? lol That would take forEVER. I tried and tried, changed hooks and everything, but I could NOT match the size she had.
So here's where I'll shorten the story and just tell you that we talked it over and decided that I'll just pick a pattern and do whatever I wanted and make her a new one.
I decided it would be a surprise ;)
So I picked a cute heart pattern that was meant for a wash cloth.
I made 9 panels total.
I used two strands of Busy Bee (hobby lobby). This yarn was provided to me by my friend already, so it was easy to chose (LOL). The pattern you can find http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/heart-dishcloth-pattern btw .
I was going to add plain blocks in between the heart blocks, but I forgot and just kept doing the hearts LOL ...whatever. It works.
Sewn together:
And I added a crochet border to finish it up.
Pattern for border:
*SL in 1st ST. SC in second, SK next, 5 DC in next ST, SK next* repeat until you get to the corner and follow again, except add 8 DC in one stitch instead of 5, this will give it a nice clean corner!
If you end up with an extra stitch or two, just improvise. I skipped them LOL you can't tell. I wouldnt skip more than one or two tho.
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