{"id":218,"date":"2022-11-29T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelymmtree.uk\/?p=218"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T09:19:52","slug":"squares-to-strips-to-cones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelymmtree.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/squares-to-strips-to-cones\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining squares – squares to strips to cones!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

5th November 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So last time we met up we distributed the lovely squares between the 3 of us, making sure we all had a mixture of colours and designs, plain and fancy etc. For the lower 2 cones we had estimated strips of 7 squares, and for the top cone strips of around 9 squares. I think each of us crocheted together 15 strips of 7 and either 2 or 4 of 9. That’s a total of 334 joins, 387 squares, with quite a lot of spares. That’s 63.46m of crochet joins!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karina’s strips in progress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosie’s strips in progress, and Sarah’s ready for the next stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We next met up to lay the strips out on the cone shapes drawn out last time to set the correct layout to fit the steel structure. We mixed up the strips to try and make sure we didn’t have similar squares next to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The strips obviously didn’t perfectly fit to the cone shapes, so we had to split a few strips back up, and add many single squares around the outside to fit the shape more closely. Strips were pinned together, then rolled up for each of us to take one ‘cone’ home to crochet together. In hindsight this didn’t work very well – we didn’t pin anywhere near enough squares and when I unrolled mine, the strips got really twisted, but thanks to the photos taken, we all managed to figure out the layouts we had and crochet them together….. Ready for the next meet up!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many thanks to The Spread Eagle in Lymm for letting us use the function room to lay this out. Perfect space!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The large cone has 24 strips 205 squares (approximately 240 more joins (1 side of a square), with the additional squares added to the strips). The middle cones has 17 strips 149 squares (155 more joins). The top cone has 10 strips 95 squares (90 more joins). Total of 449 squares. Another 92.15m of crochet joins, giving a total of 155.6m of double crochet joining we have done between us. No more dc for us for a while!!! It took us a couple of weeks to join the strips ready for the next meetup – the chicken wire stage!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5th November 2022 So last time we met up we distributed the lovely squares between the 3 of us, making sure we all had a mixture of colours and designs, plain and fancy etc. For the lower 2 cones we had estimated strips of 7 squares, and for the top cone strips of around 9 … <\/p>\n

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