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2025 - No Craft Spending - We WILL bust my stash and make pretty things!!!!!

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  • Auti
    Auti Posts: 535 Forumite
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    Help please :)

    nearly finished a cross stitch cushion - kit not English and no how to turn it into cushion! Do you line the back of the cross stitch (yarn) to stop yarn moving? Will post picture later but really have no idea what to do!

    thanks :)
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,598 Forumite
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    Another one with a question ….

    I have restarted crocheting (never really mastered it, always been more of a knitter 😊) but have got to do casting on (chain stitch) double and treble stitches this evening along with changing colour <- I’ve never managed this before 😊

    But my sides are wonky! 😂 As below … Is this just me feeling and practicing my way into a technique for controlling the tension or am I missing something? When I knit I always add two extra stitches to a row - one to slip at the beginning and one to knit at the end, which gives a nice tidy edge - is there an equivalent technique in crochet?



    All advice gratefully received 😊

    KK
    As at 15.07.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
    - OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030

    Read 40 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 29th July
    Produce tracker: £236 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
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  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,598 Forumite
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    Thanks @Auti and @Liverpool_Anne 😊
    No I didn’t chain at the beginning of either the double or treble rows but it makes sense that I would need to, to ‘make space for’ those stitches. It’s fascinating to me how different the structure is of crochet to knitting … 😊
    Thank you.

    One last question; you wouldn’t know of any books of crochet that have drawings of the stitches, shapes and structures in crochet? I’m finding the photos in the books quite hard to see into the detail of, iyswim. 

    KK
    As at 15.07.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
    - OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030

    Read 40 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 29th July
    Produce tracker: £236 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • Soontobeoap
    Soontobeoap Posts: 1,323 Forumite
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    I will go through my books later and take some stitch pics. I know I had some for when I taught a group to crochet. It is much harder to keep crochet straight. You are doing well. 
    craft stash 2023 =161, 2024 = 119  2025 = £25.96 spent,  128 made and 5 mended,
    GC 2022 = £3154.96 
          2023 = £3334. 84 
          2024 = £.3221.81 
          2025 = £2254.03/£3300
    Jan 413.77 Feb £361.32, March £192. April  £438.06 May £261.66 June £204.54 July £211.81/ £250  August £212. 85 /£650
    Decluttering campaign. 2024= 78 and half/52 bin bags full. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏅💐DH ⭐
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,598 Forumite
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    Thanks @Soontobeoap :)

    KK

    As at 15.07.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
    - OPs to mortgage = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030

    Read 40 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 29th July
    Produce tracker: £236 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • twiggy86
    twiggy86 Posts: 2,679 Forumite
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    I've been crocheting for a number of years and I still put a stitch marker in the first and last stitches of rows to ensure I don't miss any!
    Debt as at 5 June 2023 - £15,600.89
    Current debt - £5,935.00
    Total paid off - £9,665.89 (61% paid off)
  • Soontobeoap
    Soontobeoap Posts: 1,323 Forumite
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    @KajiKita this is a UK double crochet if that helps. It doesn't help that  American terminology is different. This makes sense to me though as 2 loops on hook mean it's a double crochet.
    craft stash 2023 =161, 2024 = 119  2025 = £25.96 spent,  128 made and 5 mended,
    GC 2022 = £3154.96 
          2023 = £3334. 84 
          2024 = £.3221.81 
          2025 = £2254.03/£3300
    Jan 413.77 Feb £361.32, March £192. April  £438.06 May £261.66 June £204.54 July £211.81/ £250  August £212. 85 /£650
    Decluttering campaign. 2024= 78 and half/52 bin bags full. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏅💐DH ⭐
  • Soontobeoap
    Soontobeoap Posts: 1,323 Forumite
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    edited 28 May at 5:23PM
    ok. Ignore the heading on this one as it is from an American pattern. This is a UK treble ( 3 loops on hook). Hope this helps. Please ask if any more questions.
    craft stash 2023 =161, 2024 = 119  2025 = £25.96 spent,  128 made and 5 mended,
    GC 2022 = £3154.96 
          2023 = £3334. 84 
          2024 = £.3221.81 
          2025 = £2254.03/£3300
    Jan 413.77 Feb £361.32, March £192. April  £438.06 May £261.66 June £204.54 July £211.81/ £250  August £212. 85 /£650
    Decluttering campaign. 2024= 78 and half/52 bin bags full. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏅💐DH ⭐
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