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• What is the preferred size MoEZ hook for your ghans?
  Red --- most ladies on the list.
  
  
• How much yarn do I need?
  The red hook comes out to 4" per stitch. That's part A and part B; I did 20 stitches of afghan stitch, about 5 rows, and measured as I ripped it back out. Pick the graph you want, count the stitches, multiply by **your** gauge with the hook and yarn you will be using and have at it. Mighty mighty handy to know how much yarn to put on a bobbin or cut off the skein or whatever for each color patch, too. ---Brenda in AZ
  
  
• How do I avoid curling: (3 ways)
  
  1) 2 rows of the purl really work to keep it from curling!!!! one row curls a little but the 2 rows keeps it flat. Of course at the end of your project you should use 2 rows of the purl to make it look even. --Evelyn in Ky
  2) alternate the purl and basic stitch for two rows (one purl stitch, one basic stitch, one purl stitch, one basic stitch, etc.) --??
  3) Do three rows of the backward stitch at the beginning of your afghan.
  
  
  
• How do I make the purl stitch?
  The purl stitch is just like the regular except you start with the yarn in front of your work instead of behind. I have my students drop it in front, insert hook under the next vertical bar, pick up the dropped yarn and go under the hook..up the back.. and over the top (in other words yarn over, just make sure that you are going up behind the hook and over the top of the hook), then pull the yarn through to make a loop on the hook. ---Val
  
  
• How to Change colors:
  To change colors you insert the hook in the next vertical bar and instead of pulling up the color you have been working with, you pull up the new color and tie the loose end to the color you just dropped. ---Val
  
  
• How do I avoid a hole when you change colors: (2 ways)
  
  1) PICK UP THE NEW COLOR FROM UNDERNEATH THE ONE YOU ARE ABOUT TO DROP.---Val
  2) Drop the color you are working with OVER THE COLOR YOU ARE ABOUT TO PICK UP, this is the same thing but sometimes people find this easier to do. By picking up your new color underneath on the return row you won't have the large hole. Hope this helps. ---Val
  
  
  
• How to read a graph:
  Starting at bottom of graph
  Lefties: read the graph from left to right, bottom to top
  Righties: read right to left, bottom to top
    ---Cis
  Starting at top of graph
  Lefties: read right to left
  Righties: read left to right
    --Val
  
  
• How to read a row count if you are left handed:
  Start at the end of that row and count back to the "start" In other words, if Linda's row count reads: 3w 2bl 2b 3gr 2bl 6pr 2yl 3w - then you have to "mochet" 3w 2yl 6pr 2bl 3gr 2b 2bl 3w. ---???
  
  
• Keeping your place on a graph:
  
  1) Make a COPY of the pattern, if you think you will ever want to use it again. Then, on the copy, when you finish a row, LIGHTLY pencil in (gray out) THAT row. You will still be able to see the color through the light pencil markings, yet, it will give you a visual aid as to where you left off. ---Angie in Texas
  2) First take it to kinkos and have it enlarged (easier on the eyes) and copied in full color. Then laminate so you can mark off rows as you go and remove the marks when youre done and still have a nice clean pattern to use later. --- nancy
  3) I make a copy of my graph and then put it on one of those metal boards with a magnetic line magnifier on it. The magnifier is clear and has a red line in the middle so you can see the line you are on, the one before and the one after. It helps to keep you on track by not covering the previous one. I put the strip magnets below it and the keeps it from shifting just in case it gets jostled. ---Val
  
  
  
• How to make a row count:
  
  1) put a ruler just under the row you are counting and as you count each square, make a small pen mark in it so you know you have done that one. Then when you get to the 10th row or whatever row has the darker grid line, make an ink line all across. ----Linda from NY
  2) Try to look away more often. ----Linda from NY
  3) type it up on the computer and save to a floppy disk, print up the pages and work from that. This way if you need to make any corrections, you correct from the floppy. ----Linda from NY
  
  
  
• What do I do about Chapped fingers?
  
  1) Vaseline very good. Try greasing your hands up real well then putting a pair of cotton socks over them while you sleep. Another GREAT item is 'Bag Balm.' You can buy it at feed stores (eg: Southern States) and it's wonderful! --Trish
  2) cornhuskers lotion when you go to bed at night. . - Mrs. Claws
  
  
  
• How to get ends to stay put after tucking in?
  Use fabric glue ---??
  
  

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