March Lucky You Pillow...F.O.

...so I did get another skein of yarn...and finished those last two rows...

...stuffed the pillow...

...and put it on the porch...

...Just In Time...for St. Patrick's Day...

~Have a lovely day!

March Lucky You Pillow...Day Ten Progress...

...so there we are...at the end of the thread...with just a couple more rows to go...and a few stitches...

...but I should be able to get more yarn today...and finish tonight...so it's still possible that this pillow will be on the porch tomorrow...

~Have a lovely day!...

March Lucky You Pillow...Day Nine Progress...

...with only 10 rows to go...I'm afraid I'm going to run out of the cream coloured yarn...you can see the few strands that I've got left at the top of the photo...and although I should finish tomorrow...and have this pillow on my porch for St. Patrick's Day...I probably won't as I'll have to get more yarn...

~Have a lovely day!...

March Lucky You Pillow...Day Eight Progress...

...I am nearing the finish line on this one...and of course...I'd love to pop this pillow onto the porch before St. Patrick's Day...and I think I can just do it too...

...but once again...I'm dangerously close to running out of the main colour (cream)...I did carry it across the back of the letters instead of juggling 5 bobbins...one for each letter...but maybe I should have...arghhh...

~Have a lovely day!

March Lucky You Pillow...Day Seven Progress...

...the next 10 rows...still working on LUCKY...in the darker green...

~Have a lovely day!

March Lucky You Pillow...Day Six Progress...

...just starting the "Lucky"...in the kelly green...

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March Lucky You Pillow...Day Five Progress...

...now just a few rows of plain between the words...

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March Lucky You Pillow...Day Four Progress...

...and another 10 rows...the bottom text and shamrock are almost done...

~Have a lovely day!

March Lucky You Pillow...Day Three Progress...

...another 10 rows...it's still a lot of fun to see the pattern taking shape...the transfer of squares on paper to stitches in yarn is amazing...

~Have a lovely day!

March Lucky You Pillow...Day Two Progress...

...finishing the next 10 rows...and just starting the colourwork...

~Have a lovely day!

March Lucky You Pillow...Day One Progress...

...again...nothing too exciting at the start...just 10 rows of plain white...

~Have a lovely day!

March Lucky You Pillow...gathering materials...

...so I've gathered my yarn...cream for the background...dark green for the Lucky...gold for the Y and U...and light green for the shamrock that stands in for the O of YOU...

~Have a lovely day!

Happy March...Lucky You Pillow

...so this is the March Pattern...Lucky You...

...I hope you like it...

~Have a lovely day!

March Pillow - Lucky You

...here's the pattern for March...just three colours...and a background...I'm going to use cream for the background on this one...

...some of you have expressed interest in how I 'draw' my graphs...

...well...it's certainly not rocket science...I basically use a combination of Word (wordArt - specifically for bending words into the shape I want)...and I have a lot (A LOT) of different fonts that I've downloaded over the years...

...then I also use mspaint...just the regular Paint jpeg editor that comes with Windows...I can choose and change some colours there...but if I need to do much colour change I do it in an old freeware program called EasyPeg...

...then in Paint you can switch to transparent mode and paste an overlay of a grid from say Excel...but you could also download a free graph paper grid and overly that...just adjust each cel size until it is a small square...and then use print screen to copy that into Paint...and then once you have the overlay over the picture...you just use the dropper to slurp up the colour of any incomplete squares and then the paint bucket to fill those incomplete squares...

...let me know if you have any questions...it's not difficult...but can be a little bit tedious...

~Have a lovely day!