Wednesday, November 15, 2006
yarn question
If you, dear rare reader, are also a knitter, can you help me find two or three skeins of Happy (by Idena) in dark green (their #575)? I've put one on a border of a present, assuming I'd easily find more online. But there seems only one store online with that yarn in that color. I just know there are others. Help!!!

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Blogger jau — at 5:31 PM, November 19, 2006:
Diane, I can't believe you got a different place than I did. Yours looks marvelous and I ordered it in the green I need as well as red - you never know, after all. Thank you SO much!!!

It's hard to explain instructions in writing, but I'll try. You probably know what the words themselves mean, but without being able to talk with you, I'll say it as if it's all mysterious - which it seems until you can't remember why it seemed puzzling!
-CH1 means to chain 1 after you've turned onto the new row
-HDC DEC means (a) draw up a loop in the first stitch and draw up a loop in the second stitch and then (b) YO and draw through the 3 loops then on your hook. It's the same as a regular HDC but you're combining two stitches and therefore decreasing.
-"HDC DEC in next 2 stitches" means exactly the same as the first time (i.e., do a hdc dec in the next pair of stitches) but the way they worded it makes it sound as if somehow you're decreasing in each stitch - which would be impossible! Of course, sometimes you decrease in 3 stitches because crocheting makes that so easy, so maybe that's why they're writing it so peculiarly.

Hope that helps. Feel free to email me (jam4avso [at] gmail.com) if you have more detailed questions.

What are you making?? I'll post a photo of my poncho-with-Happy if you'll post a photo of whatever you're making!!
 

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