{"id":25,"date":"2006-09-26T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2013-06-26T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:54:49","slug":"afghan-resumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/afghan-resumed\/","title":{"rendered":"afghan resumed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, in theory, crocheting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1574866346\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1574866346&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=plane02c-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">63 squares afghan<\/a>, although the 26 squares I have completed have\u00a0been sitting in a box for almost 2 years without being touched. Last week I found the <a href=\"https:\/\/yarntomato.com\/63squares\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crochetville 63 Squares Crochet-Along<\/a>, and now I&#8217;ve been inspired\u00a0to get started again.<\/p>\n<p>I crocheted one new square, and started a second, and then compared them with my previous squares. Disaster! Somehow my new squares were over an inch larger than the old ones&#8230; I think I must crochet more loosely now than I did when I started the afghan. I had to unravel\u00a0all my new work\u00a0(sob!)\u00a0and start again with a smaller hook.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/square44.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/square45.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I finished the above two squares at the weekend, and thought I was back on track, as the sizes matched my old squares. But apparently I was unable to count when I started this project&#8230; the edging is supposed to be 112 stitches around for each square, so all the squares can join nicely together.\u00a0I really don&#8217;t know what I was thinking, but some squares were a few stitches short and some a few over; not one was exactly 112 stitches! Being the perfectionist that I am, I really can&#8217;t leave them like this (plus I want the boring task of joining all the squares together to be as painless as possible) so I am unpicking the edges of the 26 squares I had already completed and re-edging them. Almost there &#8211; 7 more to go.<\/p>\n<p>In my defense, I had only just started crocheting at the time, and didn&#8217;t really understand what I was doing. I also crocheted &#8216;wrongly&#8217; by only crocheting into one top loop of the previous stitch instead of both, but I am going to leave those &#8216;wrong&#8217; squares alone &#8211; they still look nice, and it&#8217;ll be a reminder to me of how\u00a0much time passed as I crocheted this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status:<\/strong> 28\/63 squares (44%) completed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, in theory, crocheting the 63 squares afghan, although the 26 squares I have completed have\u00a0been sitting in a box for almost 2 years without being touched. Last week I found the Crochetville 63 Squares Crochet-Along, and now I&#8217;ve been inspired\u00a0to get started again. I crocheted one new square, and started a second, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}