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I am not to picky on hourly rate honestly, I have looked at similar items and there is a brooch I made that took me about 3 hours total, online it sold for $125 (same brand beads crystal)
I am doing portrait jewelry or lighter covers/pen wraps, lighter cover took 4 hours and a 5*7 photograph took 9 hours and they both used 40 different colors delica. I will figure it out,no know as long as I get money I spent back I am ok for now, but eventually I want to make a profit, lol!
Line,
Maybe teach the kids to crochet for themselves?
They could really get to working on your
WIPs, which could cut it way down so you can add more to
it... 
Always thinkin'!
I hear you...large projects like blankets, especially with just a basic single crochet stitch or a Tunisian stitch, can get so boring so fast.
Teaching the kids to crochet their own things is sounding better and better, right?
LOL.Debbie,
No worries, a few days won't hurt anyone, so relax!
Silvertiger,
I'm not familiar with that one. If it's a wool blend or superwash, it can be blocked, though I'd be careful about washing it in a machine. All wool blends are not created equal, and some of them retain enough of the wool's shrinking properties to shrink more, which you probably wouldn't want!
If it is a wool blend or superwash, the best thing to do is knit up a swatch, then actually wash it and see what it does. Hopefully it's a blend that takes well to washing!
Now if the yarn is 100% acrylic (the label will say the percentage of acrylic and whatever else it is), then I'd just toss it into the machine, wash it on cool or cold, dry it using low heat, then see how it looks. That technically should make your stitches nice and even.
I've washed acrylic in the machine...carefully. I want to say what I did was to make a blanket out of Simply Soft, which isn't quite the same as either a wool blend or really like Red Heart acrylic, as it's quite soft. But it's still an acrylic (e.g., plastic!) and if you put an acrylic through high heat...it will melt, since it's...plastic!
I took great care to ensure there was nothing to heat the Simply Soft, both through the washer and dryer...and I have to admit, running it through a wash did even up the stitches!
As I continue to fix things and add new free and premium features, I'll continue keeping everyone up to date of what's been corrected and what's new.
First, I just corrected Crochet Standard stitch word charts. Kind of an obscure problem but it showed up when the last stitch in a row in either direction was a single stitch of one color. If there were at least two stitches of a color at the end of a row, it worked fine. Anyway, it's working correctly now.
Also, as long as I was working with word charts, I just corrected and re-enabled all the Tunisian charts. The word charts were not previously in Tunisian format. All three formats are now correct. (Horizontal, Vertical, and Square Stitch Tunisian).
I'll be adding our first couple premium features soon, as well as another free feature!
Terry
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