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Winter's Embrace CAL week 2
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Jul 13, 2025
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hi and welcome to week two of our
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crochet along for the Winter's Embrace
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Blanket part of the Modern Tonal Home
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Holiday Collection i'm Stephanie if
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you're just discovering this video now
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you're absolutely welcome to jump in
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we're making a cozy modern blanket
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designed with calm tonal color blocks
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perfect for adding a handmade touch to
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your winter decor you'll find the full
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written pattern and all the cow details
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linked for you in the description below
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that includes the schedule materials and
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any helpful extras to keep you on track
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now for the rest of you let's dive into
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week two and keep on stitching
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all right so I finished the cranberry
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section and now you should be on row 48
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so I've got my stitch marker on the even
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side the even row side and this will be
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row 48 starting so I finished on row 47
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with the cranberry now this is the
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section that has three colors in it
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so we've done up through here the
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cranberry now we're going to do the
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cherries uh in the snow color whichever
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you've chosen and that should be kind of
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a mauve color depending which
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uh brand you're using not all of them
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have this particular color so I put some
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options for you you can mix and match
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whatever you chose that suits your taste
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and then the light tone which is what
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I'm calling bark so I'm using the linen
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color with the I love this yarn you can
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do white soft gray or something in this
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realm as your shade and then we'll still
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be keeping with that marshmallow pink
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color
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so we'll be starting the row with the uh
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cherries in the snow color
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now I want to remind you I'm going to
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say this a lot because you don't know at
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what point in the pattern this may
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happen to you if for whatever reason
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your SCE does not allow you to complete
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your color block section we will make it
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work okay i don't want you stressing out
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having to go get another ball uh I know
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people are on budgets and it's also very
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inconvenient to have to run out you know
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you're trying to stay in this one week
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time frame and if you don't of course
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that's fine you just you do what you can
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i know life happens but um just for the
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sake of having uh something for the
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community and us to work together it's a
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weekly
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um
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pattern drop that I'm doing
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so if for some reason you were not able
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to complete the last row now the
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manufacturer may have been measuring by
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weight not by yards and you ran short
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maybe your tension is different maybe
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you're using a bigger hook because you
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like the drape better it could be
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anything that that's happening we're not
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going to stress out about it okay that's
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just where you stop that go to the next
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section come back to the uh even number
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side and start working from there if
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you're concerned about your finished
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length being too short because you're
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going to be running into this you might
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even be using yarn that you have on hand
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and you're trying to make that work that
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could be another reason you run short
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you can just make the next sections for
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instance here and here
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these are shorter they're going to be
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wide but they're shorter so you'll have
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more yarn you can add two more rows you
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know go back and forth one extra time to
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make up for that approximately/
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inch to one inch you might be missing
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because you ran out of yarn in one of
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the previous rows so we'll make it work
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don't don't think you have to be perfect
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about this this is
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there's a way to be creative and do a
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work around
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right so I'm going to let me undo this
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last stitch so that I can bring up my
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new color
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i misplaced i don't know where my
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plastic hook is so I had to get out my
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metal i'll have to find it because I
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don't like using these hooks very much
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so chain one turn pull this snug so
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we're going to do 139 stitches and then
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do the color change there'll be 15
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stitches each of the uh bark and then of
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the marshmallow pink at the end of the
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row and we're still bringing that color
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always bring it forward when you're
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finished with your color so that it's
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there
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uh waiting for you in the back when you
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need to pull it up again
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and if you like which I think I'm going
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to do that now I'm going to mark
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my stitch so I don't have to keep
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counting um my 15 that I'll be working
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here on the light color get out another
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stitch marker
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okay this is the 15th stitch so this is
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the last 30 of this row marked for color
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changing
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and I'll meet you back when I come to
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that first color change
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right
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so I'm getting close to my stitch marker
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where I'll be changing colors
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pull up bring forward
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pull through snug this up a little bit
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i can take out my stitch marker
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go back into that stitch to pull up my
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loop
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and then keep working
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until I get to where the baby pink comes
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in so I pull this
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i think it was supposed to go here
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instead of here
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make sure all of my color joins look
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exactly the same they're not invisible
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but that's okay as long as they're
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consistent
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another thing you could do if you find
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yourself coming up a little short with
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your rows because of your yarn you can
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make that uh section that is just all
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the um bark color bigger
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you know do a few more rows of that if
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you keep track of any rows that you have
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come short that would be a really nice
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dramatic look
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you still get that same transition
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effect
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and I'm coming up to the marshmallow
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pink
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all right bring this forward
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and then my pink is already attached
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because I've been using it just pull
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through make that snug
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and continue working
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right so up through row 79 is done now
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and it's time to start in the next color
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block which is the bark and pink
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marshmallow only now you'll notice
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you've got two sections of pink
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marshmallow so what I've done is
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pulled from that SCE I was working from
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and made a different ball because the
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yarn will not be carried over through
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the section
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and then again we're going to count out
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where the bark will start for this row
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so
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from the last stitch of the bark here
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I'm going to count 20 stitches
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2 4 6 8
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10 12 14 16 18 and 20 so we'll put a
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stitch marker in there
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and then a reminder you should have the
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even number stitch marker side facing
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you now as always when we change some of
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the when we change the color block
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sections
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it's always on the even row number side
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and then back here I'm going to cut my
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bark because it starts over here and
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that's a long way from here to here so I
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will cut it and then reintroduce it
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as I get to that stitch marker point in
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the pattern so a long enough to weave in
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and then I have it here
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just check my ends that they're smooth
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and not going to get caught anywhere
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right so let me bring up my pink
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marshmallow
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and start row number 80
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so I'll pull out this last stitch
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so that I can bring up the pink
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marshmallow
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for the next row
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pull that snug do my chain one and turn
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and then begin working
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as I have been the same stitch
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right
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I'm coming up to the um stitch marker
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now
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and I will be bringing up the bark color
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here
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bring my pink marshmallow forward
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pull through
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and keep working until it's time to
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change to pink marshmallow again
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i keep working here through the
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previous bark section
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as you gradually work to where it will
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be
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mostly bark and a little bit of pink
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marshmallow
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off to one side but we've got to finish
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this section first before we get there
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all
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right bring my bark forward and then
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pick up that second skine that I have
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been using of the pink marshmallow and
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finish my last 15 stitches of the row
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and then just keep repeating
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these back and forth until you get to
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row 109
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i will see you back here again next week
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for week three we will be coming up to
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