Slow Sunday Stitching ~ Sampler Setting Strips Progress

Setting Strip Progress for my 

 Squares Sampler Crochet Afghan

 As my layout has five rows and I am thinking one setting strip per row,

I will need five setting strips.

I am halfway there at 2 and 1/2 strips. 

My third setting strip is based on this fun baby blanket crochet pattern:

Colorful Bobble Lines Baby Blanket @ Daisy Farm Crafts

The how to video for this stitch may be found here:

Crochet Bobble Lines Video Tutorial @ Daisy Farm Crafts

The background stitch in gray is a Herringbone Half Double Crochet (HHDC) stitch,

alternated with lines of single crochet and 5 double crochet popcorn bobbles.

This is another fun texture to add to my sampler afghan. 

Linking up tonight with 

Slow Sunday Stitching @ Kathy's Quilts

I hope you have had a happy weekend of slow stitching! 

Slow Sunday Stitching ~ Wave Stitch Crochet Square

 

It has been a cold and snowy weekend, 

a good time to stay in and stitch with a cuddly lap cat. 

We had 8-9 inches of snow on Friday and it has not melted much

 due to freezing temperatures.

 Outside right now we are having a "snow squall." If you are from a warm climate and do not know what this is, it means that there will not be much snow but it is falling fast and furiously and the wind is blowing it around so that visibility is very low. If we were driving, it would be best to find a safe place to pull over and wait for the snow to let up.  Driving in a blinding snow can be dangerous because you cannot see the outlines of the road or a car that might be stopped in front of you,

or a pedestrian trying to get out of the storm. 

So being able to stay warm and snug inside is a blessing.

Nutmeg and I are working on the first block in the

Squares Crochet Along Pattern 8 @ The Inspired Wren

This is a wave stitch pattern that is done in multiples of 5 stitches

and there are 35 stitches in each row.

I admit that I had some difficulty following the written instructions for this pattern stitch.  It is written correctly, but I kept messing up on alternating the rows correctly and had to pull out a few rows more than once. 

I am a visual learner so I found the following video tutorial for this stitch very helpful:

Wave Stitch Video Tutorial @ Stitchorama

I love the striped waves in the video 

and have plans to make my second block in three colors. 

I started by making a Foundation Single Crochet (FSC) of 35 stitches. 

Click on the link below if you would like to learn how to start with this stitch:

Foundation Single Crochet (FSC) ~ Video Tutorial 

~ Hooked by Robin

Then I chained 1 and turned and started my first pattern row, 

and in the back loop of my foundation row as called for in the pattern,

I alternated 5 slip stitches (Sl St)  with 5 half double crochet (HDC) stitches.

My second row repeated this row.

These two rows were followed by two rows which started with a chain 2 and repeats of 5 HDC followed by 5 Sl St across. 

After four rows the wave pattern stitch started to emerge.

Here is my block 15 progress.

Linking up tonight with

Slow Sunday Stitching @ Kathy's Quilts

I hope to put in a few more rows before sleep. 

Sweet stitching dreams!