Wow as a first time crocheter you made that magic ring so simple I didn’t have to do it 1038292739272 times lol

Just finished today and what a wonderful blanket! I love your designs, Lindsey, and will be making your Blossoms and Buds blanket next. Thanks for sharing your talents with us!

Simple and to the point! Thank you. Also, I love the warm tones of your video. ^-^

anyone else notice that the pattern and Lindsey say 1htr inc but do two? having to undo two rows becuase the pattern doesnt work again 🥺😭

Horray nearly completed the gingerbread house blanket and just got the edging to do. Already use the blanket in bed its so nice and warm. Feeling quite impressed with myself turning out stunning. Bit of a show off here but then all Sagatarius like to show off. Lol

Does anyone know how many stitches you should have for the last row?

The pattern is sometimes confusing, but honestly it is so very elementary that I've changed almost every stitch. This pattern would have been the perfect opportunity to teach different stitches with color changes, or at least every week. Is it meant to be a fully beginner pattern throughout with same stitches over and over and over? Even beginners can learn new stitches, especially with videos and instructions. How about Wattle stitch, Star stitch, Front Post Treble, Sieve stitch, etc...??? None are so complicated that they can't be included. Love all the colors, but the pattern is a total drag.

How do you just skip half the pattern and just move on without showing us??it’s actually really irritating

I didn't find this in time to make it for this christmas, but I'm definitely saving it to make for my best friend for next christmas! (I hope I'll still be able to get the yarn somewhere when I do 😅)

Just finished my blanket and loved the process. Added more rows at the end as didn’t want fringes and wanted to show most of the colours. Will be back next year to see what the next CAL is.

For bobbins: wrap it around 55 times = it makes 5 metres

Thank you. Please next time can you do it as we crochet it , instead of on a sample? It is confusing!

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Iam very sad and dont ander stand

I hope these stay up for a while as I'm so far behind 😂

thank you so much for this!! the blanket came out so beautifully and I can’t wait to give it to my mom for Christmas😊🎄💗

The way i hold the yarn, this stitch is impossible. Trying to figure out a way to make it work and not be so slow, but it is extremely frustrating.

Just found this and trying to work it. It is very beginner level and the stitches are so simplistic, it's actually boring. I changed a couple of stitches and am liking it now. Love all the colors! I choose Yarn Bee Soft Secret and all the colors are food names!

Just a suggestion to make life a bit easier. Decorate the house first before starting the lights, it's so much easier whilst the house is a small panel. Finally, if you don't fancy doing the surface crochet, use the wool to embroider with using a daisy chain stitch. It is exactly the same as the surface crochet, but is so much easier to stitch exactly how and where you want your string to go. Just a thought. Hope this helps. ❤

Where are people stitching the little CAL patch? I don't know how to do it! 😂

I finally finished my blanket today! Its lovely, thank you so much. The videos were really useful when the written pattern was a little confusing. I also loved the weekly pattern release system because i found focusing on one pattern at a time was way more approachable than if i had been given the full pattern from the start.

is there a US version of the printed pattern

Do these videos stay up forever? I feel like I'm going to be so much slower than everyone else as I'm a total beginner

Treble is a double crochet. Wow. I completely made the entire square with wrong stitches using actual trebles instead of doubles. I was NOT aware that you use different terms than the ones we use in the US. I am so upset I will have to frog my whole work.

I’m upset I had to frog the entire first row because the directions in both the video and pattern weren’t very clear 😭 I realized after you have to do 4 extra switches on top of the 40, 100, 40 😭😭😭😭

That is not a double crochet, that is a single crochet.

Wild that y’all couldn’t even do a full side for the tutorial. This is not a beginners pattern and your actual written pattern is impossible to comprehend.

Week 4 middle piece ended with 90 stitches per side. And week 5 says join 98 stitches?? Am i losing my mind 😭😭

on round 2 of the gingerbread boarder doing the slight waves - i’ve counted my stitched 5 times and have 184 (2 in corner, 40, 100, 40, 2 in corner). when working the pattern of 8 stitches (double, half, 4 single, half, double) i have 1 extra stich at the end which would make me end on a half double. i’m ready to just give up on this blanket. what am i doing wrong?!

so we just ignore the corner chain 2 stitches right

Is it 40 total including the corner...or would the count be 42?

I’m pretty sure my lights are huge or something and I crocheted too tight 😑 I’m not going to frog it but just go my own way I guess

Thank you for your efforts. I wish a video had been made of all the lines and stitches, because the written pattern contains a break in the repeated lines that are not written, and returning to the next lines leads to an error. I was excited and felt hopeful. Please accept my regards.

I'm never making one of these Sidar crochet alongs again. These tutorials are dreadful. On row 2... "I'll meet you at row 12". Row 12... "Work your slip stitch into the required stitch". Could you not have showed us what that stitch is? For the love of God, never again.

Is there any particular reason to do the lights with post trebles as opposed to just switching the color and continuing with half trebles? I don’t think I can be bothered to fuss with the post stitches.

Are we joining chain space with chain space? Or from the first stitch to first stitch? For the side panel to the lights square

I am having g trouble with the gingerbread border. I have already pulled it out once and checked my stitch points. On round three my increases keep ending up in the ally and straightening my gentle waves. My counter s are right. What am I doing wrong? Help!!

I am really struggling with the ginger bread border. I have already pulled it all out once and tried again but in round three my increase keep ending up in the valley and straightening my gentle waves. I recounted and can’t find an error. Help!!

If you are going to do a tutorial make the whole thing not just a part of it. How is that useful for a beginner? I’m so glad I didn’t pay for this pattern as it is shockingly bad. Not even letting us know the stitch count and working on a white background. The sense

Can I say .. all this talking to simply not even do a full tutorial ?! this would be so much more confusing if I wasn’t more advanced. but makes no sense to me. is this for views only?

Isn’t it 5dc between the bobbles and not 6 ????

I learned in a graphgan video that if you put the hook under the 'float' as you noted before 50:10 and work it into the stitch you don't have that line. There has to be a way to keep the back as neat as the front.

What is the purpose of turning the work?

These crochet alongs are so bad. You clearly had 3 stitches left at the end of row 3 and so did I but you said skip one and crochet into the last, and the pattern says that too, so why do i have 1 extra stitch from 95? Every single week it's something.

Something that REALLY helped this week is to use clothes pegs to pin on the bobbins when they are not in use! Prevents a big tangled mess and makes it alot easier to crochet on the couch 😅

For the sweets why didn’t you just do puff stitches ?, it’s so much easier than these surface ones , is it possible to do this ? Or will the pattern not allow it I’d rather put them in as I crochet as puffs ?

Wouldn't it have been much easier to decorate the house BEFORE the lights panel was added?

🎉done week 1 now for week 2.

I know this was posted a while ago, but I just started the blanket last week and I've finally made it to week 4. I think this might be helpful: Every time we turn the row, we need the stitches below us to be in the "7" format as it's said in the video, in order to make our FP stitches. What I've done is skipped the first stitch in the row (you can't tell once everything is done), in order to get the "7" layout. Obviously because we are turning, the stitches are in a backwards "7" so in order to get the frontwards "7", I've skipped the first stitch. This will also mean that we will technically skip the last stitch in the row as well as it doesn't have a top to the "7", just a post (it goes into the chain 2). I hope that makes sense and is possibly helpful. I'm not a new crocheter, but certainly not the most experienced this method just helped with both the stitch count and the "7" visual. Absolutely LOVE this pattern and the video guide, and that lots of people are trying it out!

This was a lovely design to make . I have enjoyed making it with some challenging steps but I have made to the end . My Gingerbread Blanket is going to my eldest grandson for Christmas 🤫but I think I will have to make one for the other 3 Grandchildren. Thank you Lindsey Have A Blessed Christmas