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Winter's Embrace Christmas In July CAL Week 1
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Jul 6, 2025
Welcome to week one of the Winter's Embrace CAL! You either have your pattern pages delivered to your inbox, have the PDF or you need the PDF linked below. This week we are using the Winterberry, Cranberry and Marshmallow Pink colors to start our colorblocking. Grab the PDF: https://livechilllife.com/downloads/winters-embrace-blanket/ Subscribe to the newsletter for monthly discounts, tips and free patterns https://livechilllife.com My books and project trackers: https://livechilllife.comshop-my-books My vintage recipe cooking channel : https:// www.youtube.com@100yearoldrecipes My Etsy shop: https://livechilllife.etsy.com and https://www.etsy.comshopTinyCottageKitchen Social Media: Instagram: instagram.com/livechilllife TikTok: Livechilllife Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/people/Live-Chill-Life/61559059162110/
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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so get your pattern out we'll start
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you'll um need to have your stitch
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marker ready because we're going to mark
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the even number
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side so all those color changes you see
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going forward in the color block
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sections are going to happen on the even
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row side so we always want to make sure
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we know where we're at all right so i'm
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going to just chain a few show you how
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to work your
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stitch and your stitch count will be
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important because that's where we put in
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our color changes okay so i've chained a
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few now i'm going to skip the first
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chain from
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hook and work a single crochet then i'm
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going to go back into that same stitch
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pull up a
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loop then go into the next stitch pull
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up a loop again yarn over pull through
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all three
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go into that same stitch i just worked
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pull up a loop before going into the
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next
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stitch pull up a loop
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again yarn over pull through all three
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and you'll just do that to the end of
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the
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row pull a loop in that same
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stitch then pull through all three just
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keep working your stitch like that
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so this is row one
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last
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stitch
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finish chain one
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turn and do the same thing again
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single crochet in the first this is row
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two go into the same stitch pull up a
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loop before going into stitch number
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two right over pull through all i'm
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going to mark this side because this is
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an even row side just put that marker
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somewhere in a stitch front of a stitch
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just so you know where it is and as i
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work i move it up because sometimes
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especially working with big pieces like
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this larger
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blankets your stitch marker can kind of
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get
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lost it's still there but it can kind of
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get feel or look like it's lost so i
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move it every section or two color block
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section or two into that same stitch the
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loop before going into the next all
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right work to the end and then i want to
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point something out at the end of the
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row just to make sure that
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you keep your straight edges because
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this blanket you have the option of
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putting a border on and we'll talk about
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that before we move to the next
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section let's finish this row first
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now when you get to the end of the row
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that little turn stitch there it's going
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to look small and like maybe it's not
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part of your project but it is so make
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sure you don't miss it always get that
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last stitch and because it starts with
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just a single crochet it's going to look
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smaller rather than these stitches that
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have more yarn in
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them right and our texture is starting
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to develop chain one
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turn let's do another row and then we'll
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talk about the border so single crochet
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in the first this is row three still
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we're working everything's the same all
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the rows are the same pull up that loop
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before you go into stitch number two
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finish there's stitch number two
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okay so let's talk about the border
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situation this is designed to not need a
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border it's meant to be a very modern
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borderless blanket the stitch has a
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straight edge just the nature of the
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stitch it has a good bit of
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texture and that's just how i want it
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the color block makes a lot of statement
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and a border will take away from that
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now i know some of you just you have to
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have a border you just it it just that's
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just the way it is you have to have a
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border that's
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fine now keep in mind because i've
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designed this to use up the entire ske
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of yarn you're not going to have a whole
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lot left to make borders and for this
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section for instance it's just one small
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area because one ske makes about this
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much for the length of the blanket so
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you need about a yard for each side now
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the pink marshmallow color goes way up
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almost the full length of the blanket
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you're going to need multiple yards but
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you should have enough of that yarn left
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so keep that in mind if you're coming to
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the end of your row and you're down to
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the littlest nub of yarn you're not
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going to be able to finish that row
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you'll have to stop and reserve hold
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back some of the yarn if you have not
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bought additional yarn for uh making
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pillows the matching
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pillows and uh if you have to stop a row
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short and i'm going to mention this
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probably more than once while working
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this it's fine we're going to make it
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work i don't want you to be stressing
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about running out of yarn not finishing
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a row all of that just stop the row
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where you have to okay this is not
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stressful i don't want you having extra
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yarn laying around having to buy you
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know spend extra money i want this to be
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you know a fun project for us with
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minimal waste at the end okay so we're
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just going to work a simple clean single
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crochet that's it i'm going down to a
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six millimeter for this because that
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larger hook we've been using for this
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stitch is going to just look a
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little it's not going to look smooth and
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easy all right so i was just mentioning
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if you have to stop short that's fine we
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will always be changing our colors go
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back to that even number row side and
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start your next color section color
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block and if you feel anxious or tripped
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up during any of this email me okay i
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will hold your hand through this this is
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not difficult but just keep in mind
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always start your color block changes on
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the even row side because while the
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sides look the same for the most part
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there's a little bit of a change with
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this
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stitch working on uh the opposite side
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and let me turn this blanket over and
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show you what that's going to look like
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obviously here i'm already getting a
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little bit short i have more of this
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yarn so it's fine you see that gives a
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little bit of a cleaner edge if you want
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that look that's
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fine okay so the opposite side so it's
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got this little bit almost like a
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patchwork look i like it though when
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you're bringing in your other colors so
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all of the um odd row sides are going to
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look like this and then the even row
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will look just seamless like this so
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there's no stitching it's just changing
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the color in the
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row at specific points in the
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pattern and you see here up in the green
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sections they're shorter solid sections
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again all right so i've worked the 21
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rows of the winter berry
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color and it's time to bring in the
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next color row and this next color row
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is where we're going to be using two
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colors so i
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have let's see i want to um i finished
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the row but i'm going to pull out the
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last stitch so that i can bring in the
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cranberry color
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um and introduce it here at the
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winterberry color
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so go
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in pull up the loop for a stitch go into
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the last
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[Music]
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one pull
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up bring in
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my next
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color leaving a long enough tail to
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weave
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in oops i didn't pull that all the way
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through here we go pull this tight and
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then i'll cut this one
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cuz i don't need any more strands
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hanging do my chain one and
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turn and then when you turn you should
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see your stitch
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marker that you place to remind you
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you're on the even number of side so
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this will be row 22
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now i have another stitch marker out
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because just to keep this
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simple the first most of the stitches of
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row 22 will be this color but the last
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15 stitches will be the marshmallow pink
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color so i'm just going to count the
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last 15 stitches and mark
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them okay so it's 15th from the end and
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then this whole section is all worked
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the same so your first stitches up to
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that stitch marker will be with the
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cranberry color and then your last
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stitches will be the marshmallow pink
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color so you'll keep working the same
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stitch that you've been
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working single crochet in the first and
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then work your linked stitches for every
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stitch after that
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and then those i think it starts to get
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fun when you start doing the color work
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it's
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less
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monotonous and then using that stitch
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marker ahead keeps it
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easy so you're not having to
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count right so i'm coming up to my
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stitch
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marker which indicates my last 15
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stitches so i will get
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my next color ready to
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go right so i go into the first stitch
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pull up a loop go into the next stitch
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the 15th
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stitch put my hook in
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there now don't cut your yarn because
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you're going to come back and reattach
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this very quickly
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okay pull this
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through
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oops actually i'll just take this out i
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don't need it here anymore
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into the second loop pull up a loop now
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i bring it forward so that it's at the
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back when i come back around to use
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it pull this color through pull this
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snug
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and then keep working come keep
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working and finish the row
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all right so i'm on row 23 where i've
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just been working the uh marshmallow
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pink color
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back across so the first 15 stitches
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are this color there's my 15th
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stitch bring my yarn forward
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make sure that i don't have them twisted
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or that's going to get annoying real
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fast and then because i pulled this
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forward on the last round it's ready for
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me in the back so i'll bring it up and
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finish that
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stitch move this to the side and then
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keep working
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so you'll repeat
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rows 22 which is this row that came this
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way and then now i'm on
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23
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times so this section is going to be a
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little bit wider than that first winter
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berry section