Free HUGZZZ – and so it begins!

Hello everybody, please excuse me for getting this up a little late, but as they say, better late than never. So what I discovered was that creating a crossword (especially a themed one) isn’t very easy at all. I mean, it can be easy if you have a very dispersed pattern but if you want one of those really good ones that you get from the New York Times, it’s really hard. So i have done a simple one, but made it a little more challenging. This is how this little contest will work. There is a grid below with the words Start (your cast on) and Finish (your cast off). Obviously, these two words are on the grid and they are also the answer to two of the clues below. What you will have to do is twofold  – decipher the answers to the clues below, and them place them correctly so that all the words fit neatly in the grid. Clicking on the grid will display it on a larger scale so you can see it a little better. The first person to correctly answer the clues and send me a copy of the grid filled in correctly will win the scarf. You can send me your finished grid in a number of ways – you can recreate it in a spreadsheet program, do it on graph paper and take a picture of it, or if you wish, mail it to me. I don’t suggest this method however as it may take a while. So, without further hesitation, here are the clues and the grid!

1. Familiar letters when slipping stitches.
2. Knitters hate this but sailors love it!
3. A lace knitter’s method of increasing.
4. An unusual food based fiber.
5. Used to hold up a suspension bridge or intricate braids.
6. Don’t give this to your partner before you have a ring.
7. A little demented or a stitch worked backwards.
8. My area 51.
9. A billy is one or where Mohair and Cashmere comes from.
10. Tools of the trade.
11. Spherical.
12. Not surprisingly, the French don’t usually use this method to knit; a common language in Britain.
13. Measure
14. In style; a popular knitting magazine.
15. Mr. Bean; a famous knitting brand.
16. Not bent; a type of needle.
17. Blocks of color knit from individual balls or bobbins.
18. The first stitch.
19. Isles near Ireland famous for cabled knitwear.
20. A female sheep.
21. A man that knits.
22. Sock admirers.
23. Knitting on the …. by Nicky Epstein; on the brink
24. A type of shawl
25. A sleeve that goes into the body.
26. Triangular multi-directional technique (fr.).
27. The warmest fiber.
28. Knitting technique that wraps the yarn on the left hand.
29. A stranding technique that has two colors per row.
30. Head warmers.
31. When you don’t have enough yarn for a whole sweater this may be a good option.
32. A cleavage flattering neckline, perhaps.
33. The Sly one knits for a recent Oscar winner in this movie.
34. A type of stitch; thing from which most plants grow.
35. A …. in time, saves nine.
36. A type of cast on; conditional
37. Famous designer known for Celtic and Fair Aisle creations.
38. The opposite of 18.
39. Is that your final answer? No, I’d like to use one of these; they come in handy when overboard.
40. A knitters favorite animal

Knitting Crossword

Well, you’re all set. Good luck!

Hugzzz 😎