Knit Your Square To Give Your Share - Part 3

chalky_75

Orkney Star that is great we would have missed you !!
Zany,crazy ,crochet,knit anything goes as long as we try to keep to the 8 inch square.

Maytaurus did a link to squares yesterday which will help I am sure and ISOM what a lovely link to lots of different stitches and patterns -- thank You !

OHHHH I am beginning to get excited now!

Little square toys -- I made up the pattern after seeing something similar on the internet but have not got a clue where now.

Anybody seen it anywhere -- If not I will jot it down as it is so easy and quick !

OrkneyStar

Squares here I come, but I did warn you they will be noticed in a dark room!
Gotta see what DS is up to, love OS.
x

mioliere

Hi everyone. Haven't been posting much because I have a bad back and can't sit at my desk for too long. It's better than it was yesterday, though, so I know it's getting better. I think I must have slept awkwardly or something.

Anyway, I'm still working on gifts to take back to the UK but will make a start on squares this week for Chalky's challenge.

Maytaurus, bless her, has sorted out the dress pattern that I couldn't read because the print was so small. I made a big mistake in it (forgot to decrease!) so I have unpicked the 8 inches I had done and will make another start on it over the next day or so. Thanks, May - you're a star!

Shaz - glad the meeting went well.

Pam - glad you had a good time. Hope everything works out.

Hester - it's good to hear from you.

Well, it's lunchtime so I'd better go and heat up the soup.

Will call in later.

KathyXX

f1widow

Square Soft Toys
Cast on 20 st and knit in stocking stitch for as long as you want one side of body to be.
On the next knit row knit 2 stitches - change wool colour and knit across 6 stitches turn and just using these 6 stitches garter stitch 1 leg (again you can make it as long as you like)
With the 6 leg stitches still on your needle (and the initial 2 at the beginning of the row) knit across 4 more stitches in the body colour (this is the crotch of the toy)
Change to leg colour and knit across another 6 stitches and garter stitch the second leg.
Change back to body colour and knit across final 2 stitches (all the stitches should now be on one needle with 2 loops for legs).

Continue the back of the toy in stocking stitch until you are about 3/4 way up and then cast on 12 stitches and garter stitch on these 12 stitches to make 1 arm (as fat as you llike but I usually do about 6 rows). Cast off the 12 stitches you have cast on this leaves 1 arm.

In body colour knit across the body and turn - cast on 12 stitches and do the second arm. Cast off the arm stitches and finish back of the body to match the front in length.

Sew all the seams and stuff - sew the top closed and add hair and features.

(Could not link Chalky's original pattern so just typed it up!!!)

chalky_75

F1 widow You are a star I had forgotten I had ever posted the instructions for the little square people so thanks for sorting that out --- All help for dippy, beautifully bonkers 50+ nutty knitter gratefully accepted!!


Kathy --- Hope the Back soon feels much better -- What a nuisance. I think back pain makes you feel bad all over!!
So glad you have dress sorted but how annoying.
Bet you are getting really excited about trip back to see all your loved ones. Hope your Mum had a happy Christmas in her new home but expect she spent the day with your DS . Hope she is much bettter too !!!
Keep warm and I love a hot water bottle on my back if it gets sore

In_Search_Of_Me

yes hottie definately helps with sore back miol...that and pain killers!
Well mum just left (quick phone call to get her back as she left all the food behind lol!). We had a lovely time - very relaxed, cheap and filled with love! As she says Christmasses just get better every year!
Does anyone have an ideas re the blankets in terms of where they should go? Would just help me "focus" in terms of style etc...am making my basket to felt - done two panels, two to go ad will then do one! Answers on a post please lol!!! So pleased you will join us OS - great too that they will be bright and colorful and will certainly bring some joy to the recipient!

f1widow

Hi I hope Im not butting in about where the blankets will go but are there any organisations that will give them to the elderly in homes in England. Albeit i do think the overseas charities are a very worthwhile cause do they ever request any here.

Am I barking up the wrong tree but didnt someone here take a couple of blankets to a local home and they were over the moon with them

This obviously means finished blankets which will be a real job for chalky or just send the squares to a charity that sews up.

My other thought was do any of the homeless charities take blankets to their "night cafes" (or whatever they are called)

Or childrens homes (if they still exist these days.....)

I know it sounds like im totally disregarding the charities abroad and I dont mean to its just most of the knitting things I see are for sending blankets etc abroad & wondered if they wanted any here.

Oh my another thought came into my head - I once saw a charity on I think it was Noel Edmunds for the children and families who have lost a father/mother (widowed families)

I think I will shut up now !!! ha ha ha xxxxx

shezmit

If we get any big blankets in with dark colours i take them to my local vets as they are in need of them and use them all the time,

i know when my mom was a carer i made few blankets for her old ladies that she was looking after and they was chuffed to bits with them,

i am happy to take in blankets and will find good homes for them

i am like you f1widow i think people should think about our own country before sending out to other countries as there is a need here as well

psso

f1widow - I agree that we might be able to find somewhere to place the blankets in the UK instead of sending them abroad.
Like you I thought of homeless shelters, but also women`s refuges, Salvation army, pet rescue centres might appreciate some ?

Have started a purple & yellow square - free yarn with a knitting mag a couple of months ago. Will maybe also `practice` the crochet again for a change.

Snowing here again, I`m fed up with it now. Wish it would rain and get rid of it but the forecast says even more is expected with temps as low as -18 in some places. Brrrrrrrrrrr. I`m away to put the fire on and sit beside it with my woolly stuff, nice`n` cosy. Kettle is boiling too so what more could I ask for - cuppa, cake and knitting - bliss...................

See you later.
Elaine.x

ps - I hope you don`t mind, but I have asked on the MSE charities board for any other suggestions of places which might be able to use some blankets - will wait and see if anyone comes up with anything.

OrkneyStar

f1widow wrote: »

Hi I hope Im not butting in about where the blankets will go but are there any organisations that will give them to the elderly in homes in England. Albeit i do think the overseas charities are a very worthwhile cause do they ever request any here.

I agree about close to home being as important as abroad....Scotland too though (and Wales), not just England!
I thought Chalky was going to find some worthwhile causes ? Also I think Loving Hands take squares too. The other thing is that we could, if we make enough squares individually, gift a small blanket to someone we know would appreciate it, or maybe even a local care home ? Just a thought, and I will await Chalky's input ?
Shezmit what do you want squares for ? I did not think squares were part of your challenge (the one you posted a day or so ago!). My other concern is that we are not posting things on and on, in other words that there are not too many middle men in between us knitters and the final recipients!
Ok, hope I am not waffling too much, I am actually off now to start a 32 stitch DK square while DS sleeps.
x