Crochet Journal

Hi everybody, welcome to our live event. My name is Brenda KB Anderson, and I am an instructor and also a crochet project designer, um, and I'm very excited today to share with you guys my latest project. It's a crochet journal, so you could use this journal for keeping track of crochet adventures, or you could. it for journaling or, you know, whatever else you would like to, you know, use a notebook for. Um, but let me just kind of show you what this looks like.

So, um, of course we have the granny squares on both sides and then there's this cute little tie here to keep it closed if you throw it in a bag or something. And then on the inside. We just have the paper is kind of bound into the crochet. So this is a very fun project. It's a little outside of the norm, um, but it's very easy to do and it's, you know, something that you can, you probably have most of the materials for this at your house right now.

So yay, um, that's an extra bonus. Um, oh, we've already got a comment. Thank you, Claire, for the compliments. She loves this. Hi everybody, I'm so glad you guys are here.

Um, if you guys have any questions about what I'm doing or, you know, if you have any comments or you know if you just wanna chat and say hello from wherever you're crocheting from today, um, I love that if you guys are active in the chat, you know, go ahead and just go ahead and leave your comments and questions in the chat and I will get to them during this live event. OK, so. Uh, let's start talking about uh the materials that we need for this project. So I made this with 4 different colors, kind of added together, but really you can use as many or as few colors as you want to. You could do it all in one color.

It would still be lovely, um, you know, for a more understated kind of classic look, um, or you can just use completely, you know, go to your scrap collection and just use a different color for every single section of this, this book that works too. So, um, I, I use 44 different colors. Um, the what I call the main color in this, even though it's not really a super dominant color. I call the, the color that's around the edging and on the spine of the book, um, and then, you know, of course, in the granny squares as well. That is the color that I'm referring to as the main color.

So in this project, it would be green, um. And then the other colors are just contrasting colors. So the main color should be about the size of a large apple. Um I do list like the yardage I used for each color. Um, for the main color, let's see, that was about 80 yards or 73 m, and just a little tip for you guys.

I usually take what I use and then I add just a little tiny bit more to it just to make sure you guys don't run out of yarn. Um, so if you're ever like, oh, I have just barely 80 yards, I wonder if it'll work. It'll likely work. So, cause I usually pad it out just a tiny bit. Um, and then you'll need 3 balls or however many, you know, for your contrasting colors.

Um, I use 3 balls and so it's about 30 yards per color, so like a small apple or like a plum sized amount if you were to ball it up. So what I have here, I've got, I'm gonna be using these 4 colors um in the sample today. But just know that this is way more than you would need. You could make quite a few of these journals with this amount of yarn, um, and even these balls of yarn are, are, you know, quite a bit larger than you would actually need. Um, OK, so you're going to need some yarn.

This is a worsted weight acrylic, all of the colors that I have here today, but you can use a cotton, you could use blends, you could use wool, you can really use any fiber. I mean, it's very versatile. Um, you just need to be able to get gauge. So I would, you know, start out by using a worst of weight yarn, crochet up your granny square, and check your gauge because um in your pattern, oh, let's talk about the pattern download. You should, you, you will also need to download the pattern.

Um, I should have mentioned that earlier. All the instructions, the complete instructions, as well as like some picture tutorial stuff are all found in your pattern download. Um, so you can go ahead and download that and follow along now, or you can download it later if you, you know, you might not want it right now, that's fine too. It doesn't matter, it'll still be available later for you to, to grab on to. Um, so, um, let's see.

Yeah. So, um, you can use really any fiber content as long as you're able to get gauge. So, the way that I get gauge or the way that I list gauge, it's a 3.5 inch granny square. So you do your 4 rounds, and we'll be walking through all of this, so you'll know how to do it. Um, and then you just measure across your square, and if it's 3.5 inches, then you're good with your hook size and your yarn size.

If it is too small, then you can try going up hook size to make it a little bigger. You could try starting over with a thicker yarn. You could add a strand of thinner yarn along to hold along with to kind of bulk it up a little bit more. You could also do that. Um, there's lots of ways to kind of, um, Adjust so that way your squares end up being 3.5 by 3.5.

So if your squares aren't the right size, that's going to kind of throw off how large your large or small your cover is going to fit on these sheets of paper. So which brings me back to the materials. You're going to need a stack of paper. I am using these. These are refills.

It's like a planner notebook refill. So that, let's see, I think this is about. Uh, just over 4 inches, tiny, right around 4 inches and almost 4 1/8, um, or like 10.5 centimeters in that direction, and this is about almost 6. 3/4, just a little tiny bit shy of that, um, or. About uh let's see, 17, about 17 centimeters.

Um, so if you're looking for the paper that I used, I believe I put a link in the, the pattern, um, but this was just purchased off at Amazon. It's just a refill for one of those little planner style notebooks. Um, so that's what I'm using, and that's what I base the sizes of everything off of. So, Uh, in a roundabout way, what I'm trying to tell you is that if your granny squares aren't turning out to the correct size, it might not fit correctly on the paper if you're using the same kind of paper. So, Um, OK, so we've got the yarn, we've got the refill, uh, paper.

This was 100 sheets, but you can make your book thicker, or you can make your book thinner. You can completely adjust that, and I'll talk to you about that as we're working on this project, so you know how to make adjustments for that. So this is a really great uh project for being able to tailor it to your needs. So like if you're an artist, maybe you want to put a little watercolor paper in there or some kind of specific types of paper, you can add in whatever kinds of paper you want. Um, and I do have the size of the paper written in the pattern download so you can cut it to that size and you can punch holes in it.

The holes need to match up throughout all your paper, right? So that, like if you laid all your stacks on top. Of each other, you should be able to um you know put something through the holes all the way through. So the holes for every sheet of paper will need to be in the same spot as each other, but they don't have to be in the same position as um one of these refill notebooks just in case you're wondering. So you need to have uh probably I would do like the same amount of holes if you're making your own um paper on the inside, you know, 6 holes or so, um, as long as they all line up in the paper though, that you should be fine.

OK, so we've got yarn, we've got paper. We're going to also be using a piece of stiffened felt. So that's what this is right here. This is not the best quality stiffen felt, but it works great for this project. Um, you may find a stiffened felt that is a little thicker, a little bit better than this.

That's fine too, doesn't actually matter. What we're using this for is what I call the end paper. So it is the part of the, like just on the inside of the cover. This is going to give it an extra durability. It's also going to make it a little bit stiffer so that your granny square isn't just curling up and flopping around.

Like there's no way we could get it to stay down if there wasn't something stiffening it. But the nice thing is, even though it is stiffened, you know, there is that flexibility to it, so it's not going to get a crease in it. It's not going to rip or crack or or anything like that. So it's nice and flexible. It's kind of the perfect thing to add to the inside of our granny squares to make this a much more durable cover.

So you're going to need a piece of that. You're also going to be needing a hole puncher, a whole punch. So this, this is a very silly looking one. I know I've had this one for forever. It's not really in the best shape, but I can still punch with it.

Um, but it does not need to look like this. This is just the one that I have. Um, you are also going to be needing a few stitch markers. I think I listed 5 because that's how many stitch markers I used in one of the steps. So if you just have, you know, a small handful of stitch markers, that's great.

These are just the kind, you know, they, they should be the locking kind of stitch marker. If you don't have locking stitch markers, um, then you can use safety pins instead. That will work just fine. And you're also going to be needing two sizes of crochet hooks. So I used a G hook, which is a 4 millimeter hook, and I use that for all the granny square parts of this project.

Um, and then, but you will use whatever hook you need to in order to get gauge. So in order to make your squares the same size as mine, which is listed in the pattern in case you forget, it's 3.5 inches. Um, and then also you're going to be needing a hook. Oh, actually that was backwards. I'm sorry.

I used the F hook 3.75 millimeters. That's what he used for the granny squares. OK, I'm sorry about that. I misspoke. The smaller hook is for the granny squares.

The larger hook is for the sections of single crochet. There's not much single crochet going on here. It's mostly just single crocheting around the edge and then a little bit on the binding here, um, or on the spine of the book. So, um, that's what you'll be needing those for and, uh, yeah, just a pair of scissors and that's it. I know it sounded like a lot because I talked for kind of a long time explaining all these things, but it's really not that much and it's a very inexpensive project, um, to work up, especially since you probably have scraps of worst of wet yarn in your stash.

I'm just guessing. Most crocheters do. Oh, Molly's watching from Poland. Hi, Molly. Hope you're having fun in Poland.

Um, and we've got a hello from Dubai and Renee says hello from Texas. Hi, you guys. Thanks for saying hi. I appreciate that. OK, so let's get started.

Um, we're going to be working up the granny squares, and um I'm going to be starting, this is going to be the main color for this particular, uh, this particular journal that I'm working on here, this lighter pink color. So I'm going to start out using the smaller hook. So that's my F hook 3.75 millimeter hook, and I'm going to begin by making a slipknot. I'm placing that on my hook. And then we're going to chain for.

So 123, and 4. OK, so, now we've got our 4 stitches, and we're gonna slip stitch in the very first chain we made, so that's right here. So, I'm gonna place my hook in that first chain. Yarn over, pull through the chain, and pull through the loop on the hook. And so that made a very small little yarn doughnut here.

So you can see there's a little hole in the middle. That's where we're going to be working our stitches. So, now we're going to chain 3123. And we're going to, that's going to count as a double crochet, and I'll explain a little more about that as we go. That's counting as our first double crochet, and now we're going to make 2 more.

So to make a double crochet, we're going to yarn over, insert into the center of that space there, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through 2, yarn over, pull through 2, and then we're going to do that again. yarn over, insert, yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through 2, yarn over, pull through 2. All right, now we're at a corner of our square, and I know that doesn't make any sense yet, but it will. So we're going to chain 2, so 1 and 2, and now we're going to work back into that same space and we're going to do 3 double crochets. So yarn over, insert, yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through 2, yarn over, pull through 2.

We're going to do that 2 more times. 1 and 2. And we're at our next corner. So we're gonna change 212, and you will start to see the corners in a little bit. It'll make more sense in a minute.

And now we're going to do 3 double crochets into that same space. To 3 And then chain 21 and 2. And then we'll do 3 more double crochets right here. 1. 2 3 And now we're going to do a half double crochet to close our granny uh round one of our granny square.

So we're gonna yarn over, then we're going to insert into the top of that chain 3, that very first chain 3 we made. So we're going to put our hook right here through the top of that. The top chain there, we're going to grab the yarn, pull up a loop. Now, we have 3 loops on our hook. We're going to yarn over and pull through all 3, and that basically takes the place of 2 chains.

You could also, if you really like doing 2 chains in a slip stitch, you can certainly do that instead if you're used to that. And then we're just gonna cut our yarn. You just need to leave a few inches, so you can weave those in later, and then we're gonna just pull that through and tighten that up. And that's going to finish off our first round. All right, so we're gonna start with the next color.

So this is for round 2. I'm gonna start with a slipknot on my hook. Just like that. And I'm going to make a slip stitch to one of these chain 2 spaces. I'm going to use that that last, well, I'm calling it a chain 2 space, but really it was a half double crochet that closed that at the very end.

So that's where I'm going to be inserting through, but you can do it anywhere, any of those corners is fine. So you're going to insert, grab that yarn, pull through, and pull through the loop on your hook, tighten that up a little bit, and then we're going to change you one and 2. And some people chain 3 here. You can chain 2 or you can chain 3. It really doesn't make a difference.

You can just see, um, you can just see how it looks and see which way you like to do it. That's going to count as your first double crochet. And now we're going to do 2 more double crochets. So what you're an over, insert into that same corner, you're an over, pull up a loop, you're an over, pull through 2, you're an over pull through 2, and we're going to do that again right here. And now we're gonna skip over all these double crochets, and we're gonna work into the next chain space.

So we're gonna do 3 double crochets. One To Man 3. Excuse me. Oh, we've got more hellos coming in. We have Tina from India.

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All right. OK, so we're continuing. We've got, we started with that the beginning chain, so that count as a as a double crochet, and then we did 2 more. So we've got a total of 3 into that first chain space. We skipped these double crochets, and then we did 3 double crochets into the next chain space, which is right there.

And now we're at a corner, so we're going to chain 21 and 2. So we do that every time we get to a corner, and now we're going to place 3 more double crochets into that chain space. So one To And 3. And now we skip the next 3 double crochets, and now we're at the next corner. So we do 3 double crochets, a chain 2, and 3 double crochets into that corner.

So there's our 3 double crochets and then we retaining 2, and then 3 more double crochets. And I should mention, I am crocheting pretty tightly here. Um, I'm not intentionally making this tighter than it needs to be, but normally I don't use an F hook for a worst away yarn unless I'm making Aicar roomy or something like that. But I wanted this fabric to be nice and stiff because it's the cover of the book. And also, um, it turned out.

The right size when I was crocheting something up pretty, pretty tightly here. So this may feel a little bit stiff to you. It may feel a little bit tighter than a normal granny square, but that's intentional, um, and it kind of needs to be that way. Otherwise, your granny square would probably be too big. OK.

So here's another chain 2 corner. We've got 3 double crochets, chain 23 double crochets. And now we're back at the first corner we started at. So we're gonna finish that one up, and I'm going to do 3 double crochets into that corner. So, 1, To And 3, and then we're going to finish up.

You can do a chain 2 and a slip stitch to the top of that, um, top of that turning chain or the top of that beginning chain, which counts as a double crochet, but I like to finish my granny squares with a half double crochet right here. And the reason that I do that, I just sort of switched over to always doing this is, um, it looks pretty much the same, but it, it ends. It it it has you end right at the very corner of your work right here instead of ending with a slip stitch right above here. And the benefit to that is if you are ever working up something and you don't want to change color if you're making granny squares and you want to just keep going, you're already at the corner and you can start after you do that half double crochet. Then you can just chain up and begin doing your double crochets into that space there and working your way around.

So in that way you don't have that sort of awkwardness of ending up over here, but really wanting to work a little bit behind you and then you can sort of see that as you, as you, um, continue your granny square. But if you are someone who you've made lots of granny squares, you just like doing them with the, the chains at the end, or, you know, there's so many different versions of making the basic granny square. Um, if you want to do, you know, do it the way that you normally do it, that's totally fine. As long as you and it ends up being a 3.5 inch square, you're, you're good to go. It's all right.

OK, so I'm starting with my third color on my hook with a slipknot, just, um, just like we did last time. So I'm going to go in here and grab that yarn, pull it up, pull it through the loop on the hook, and then chain 2. That's gonna count as my first double crochet, and I'm gonna do 2 more double crochets in that same corner space. And then we're going to skip to the next space between groups of double crochets, OK? So when we're working in granny squares, we're never actually working into our double crochet stitches.

We're working between them. So here, there's a little hole right there. So this is a group of 3 double crochets, and there's a group of 3, and we're going to put 3 double crochets right into that little space. So there's the first one. The 2nd 1 and the 3rd 1.

And now we're going to move on to the next space. So this is a corner. So we're gonna do 3 double crochets. And then we're going to chain 21 and 2, and then we're going to do 3 more double crochets. To 3.

Then we're going to move to the next space between stitches, and we're going to do 3 double crochets right here. 1 To 3 And here's the next chain space. This is a corner. So we're going to do 3 double crochets, chain 23 double crochets. So from here on out, as you're making this style of granny square, every time you get to those chain 2 spaces at the corner, it's always going to be the same.

You're always going to be doing 3 double crochets, chain 23 double crochets. And then for anything that's not a chain 2 corner, any space between groups of double crochets, it just gets filled up with 3 double crochets like what I'm doing right here. So it doesn't, you know, you could just keep on going if you wanted to make a very huge square, like a blanket or something like that. You could just keep going with every round. We're gonna change 2 because we're at the corner and do 3 more double crochets to that same space.

And here we'll do our 3 double crochets right here. And we're gonna finish up this corner we started. And we're going to finish it up. So we're going to add those 3 double crochets right here. And then we're going to do a half double crochet to join.

So we're doing that half double crochet to the top of that chain 2, that at the beginning of the round there. Just like that. And then we'll just cut that yarn. And pull it through. All right.

So then we just need one more round in our granny square. So, I'm gonna do this one a little quicker. I won't be talking all the way through, but it's the same exact process. We've got our slipknot. Slip stitch.

Change to And we're working the first half of that corner. There's our first group of granny square or of uh double crochets. And our second group of double crochets. Because with every round, you're gonna end up having one more set of double crochets in there because it's growing. I'm at a corner, so remember you gotta do the chain uh 3 double crochets, chain 23 double crochets.

And I'm at the next corner. 3 double crochets. Chain 2 and 3 double crochets. There's the next corner. 3 double crochets here.

And we're on our last site. Now at this point, you would measure your square, just to make sure it's about 3.5 inches across. And that'll tell you if you're doing OK with the hook size and the yarn weight and all that stuff that you put together. And you can make adjustments if you need to. All right, so here is the very last stitch.

That's a half double crochet in the top of that chain, beginning chain too. And then we're gonna cut our tail. And I like to leave a longer yarn tail, so that way I can sew my pieces together. And then at this point, um, if everything turned out OK, like the right size, then you can just go ahead and weave in your ends. So, I want to show you how I make one little more, one more little adjustment here to this center group.

So, I did, I actually crocheted over my yarn tail, so I can just kind of pull on it, and it'll tighten that up. But if you did not crochet over it, which is perfectly fine, you do not need to, you can thread your yarn kneel on that yarn tail, and then you're gonna just run that through. The base of all of those double crochets in this color just like this. And if you miss a strand here and there, it doesn't matter at all. Just, you know, get most of them and go all the way around and then you can pull on that, and that'll close in the little hole that was there.

And so once that's nice, you know, pulled nice and tight, I go in the opposite direction. I skip over a loop. And then I go in the opposite direction. But what I mean by skipping over a loop is, if I came out under this stitch, I would go on top of that stitch next and then go in the opposite direction. I'll show you that one more time.

So I kind of go around, oops. Um, and then I'm gonna, if I switch directions, see how I came out underneath this strand here, I can just go on top of that one, and that's gonna catch it, so it's not gonna pull it out. So I'm just gonna go back and forth in a couple of directions to make that nice and sturdy. So that way it'll stay closed, and then you can trim it off. So, you can go ahead and weave in all of your yarn tails, except for the very last one, because we're going to use that for seaming.

And so, and, you know, if you've never woven in yarn tails in a granny square before, if you use a bunch of different colors, you really should weave that yarn tail into the same color, uh, you know, the matching colors. So I just kind of weave it back and forth in a couple of directions in that little section right there. Same thing with this strand, kind of back and forth through here. Um, so you just kind of need to stay within that, otherwise, you'll start to see it on the front of your work. All right, so, Um, and then once you get, so, so this would be a square number 1, and then I did list in the pattern, like how I alternated through the colors.

Let me just bring in my 4 different squares here so you can see what I mean. So they're all very similar, but the way that I alternated through, I made sure that, um, so we've got these two centers that are matching, these two centers that are matching, but the outer one does not, like I can sew two together that have different centers and different round number 4s. That's just how I, that was just like a personal preference for how I liked it to look. OK. So I've got These two, these two centers are different, the two outers are different.

I could sew them together and they wouldn't, um, you know, blend together. But like I said before, you can do all scraps. It really doesn't matter. I'm just letting you know that if you want to follow the same color changes that I wrote out here, I'll just show you in the pattern, um, that, that it's all listed for you. You don't have to think about it if you don't want to.

It's right here underneath instructions. So this is telling you you start with the main color. The next round would be color 1, the next round color 2. Next round color 3. Then on the next square, you start with color 23, main color, color 1.

So the first number listed here, that's the center, the very center of your granny square. The last number listed here is the last round you work. So, it's planned out for you if you want it to be, but you certainly do not need to follow that if you don't want to. OK, so you get your 4 squares, um, however you like to make them, or with whatever color scheme you like, and then what I did was I put together, um, 2 squares that had different centers and also different outsides. So like, I wouldn't have put These, these two together because they have, even though they have different round number 4, this is a lighter green, this is darker green, they, they have the same centers and that kind of bothered me.

So, um, so if you want to follow my little color plan, then you can grab. You know, the two squares that have different centers and different outsides, and then you're going to seam them together, the whipstitch, and you will be left with two other squares that will also have different centers and different round number 4s, and you can seam them together as well, and I'll show you how to sew them. So you can just take one of those yarn tails, and then we're just going to do a whipstitch, or you can sew with, you know, a mattress stitch, any, any stitch you like to put them together. I usually just gravitate towards a whipstitch, especially for granny square projects, because it, it lays nice and flat, and I really don't mind that extra little stitching look. I think it kind of adds to the Sort of handmade appeal of a granny square.

So, that's usually what I, what I use, but you can use any, any sea method you like. So I'm just going, I'm just using that yarn tail and I'm going underneath a loop from that side and a loop from that side, one from each square, and I'm going underneath both um both strands of each. Side, if that makes sense, under two strands for each square, if that makes sense. And I like to pull it nice and tight. But not so tight that it's gonna um make that sort of dimple in.

On the sides Oh, we've got some more hellos. I gotta catch up, you guys. Let's see. Oh, Cindy's here. Good morning from chilly and windy central Pennsylvania.

Hi Sandy. Janice is here. Hello from upstate New York. Hi Janice. Um, Janice is excited to make these for the grand artists for Christmas.

Oh, that's such a good idea. Yeah, my kids are getting these. They have like, they have a lot of journals. They really love journals, um, so this will be, it'll be good to have some extra ones. Oh, and Bonnie's here.

Um, she likes the tip of doing the half double crochet in the final corner. Hi, Bonnie. And Cindy's here. Oh, it sounds like a pep talk for check and gauge, yeah. Cindy's watched me a lot, so she knows.

She knows how I always try to avoid checking gauge. Well, I always do check gauge. I just find alternate ways to do it. I don't like making gauge swatches very much. I've admitted this many times, but you, you do have to check your gauge as you go if you're gonna be like that because you don't wanna have any nasty surprises later.

You don't want to have something that doesn't fit or ends up too big, or maybe it's not, you know, just not the right kind of drape. All right, so I stitched those two together, woven my ends. I did the same thing for the other cover. OK, so we've got 2 squares here, 2 squares here, and then the next thing we're going to do is we're going to put a little pause on that. We'll set those aside, and we are going to work on the end paper.

So the end paper. Um, is just a rectangle of that stiffened felt, so I've already cut these. This is the color I'm using, but then I realized this morning that this is the same color as the paper, and I didn't want that to be confusing. So this is felt, This is paper, um, but maybe just for right now, I will use a gray piece of felt just to make it a little more obvious what I'm doing. So this is a stiff and felt, and I cut this to 3.5 by 7, I believe.

Let me just double check. Yep, 3.5 inches by 7 inches or 9 centimeters by 18 centimeters, OK? Um, so this is going to be the right size for your granny squares, and you can actually block your granny squares to the size if you want. So you can just go ahead and lay it on top and give it a little steam to make it relax and be about the same size. It doesn't need to be absolutely dead on perfect, but it should be within A quarter of an inch off would probably be OK, but, um, you know, something pretty close to that.

OK, so I liked to kind of cut a curve on the corner of these pieces just because it looked a little nicer. You don't have to do that, honestly, probably doesn't matter. So you can skip this step if you want. Um, by the time you get everything stitched together, you won't even notice. But I just like to cut these little corners off just to make it look a little nicer when I'm doing my round of crochet.

And then we're going to use our hole punch to create some holes in here to work into. So, um, and like I said, this is not the best hole punch in the world. Yours is probably sharper than mine. This one's super old. But you can go ahead, since it's stiff and felt, it should go through pretty well.

Mine is not sharp enough to completely cut off that, so I just punch everything and then I snip these off with scissors, these little tags that kind of hang. And you're gonna do a hole in each corner, and I'm making these holes so that they're about a quarter of an inch away from the edge. Here's the next one. OK, so now we've got 4 holes in our piece. You can see them there, one in each corner.

And now we're going to just eyeball this. You can measure it if you like, but I just eyeball this halfway between these two holes, we're going to place another hole right here. And about a quarter, quarter of an inch away from the edge again. Same thing on this side. So this one ended up slightly off center, but it really does not matter.

It's only off by a little bit. So, eyeballing is just fine here. You won't even notice it later. But like I said, you could actually measure it out and put little dots there if you want to. Now, we're going to divide the space between that center hole and the one on the corner.

So we're going to come on in here. And do a punch here. And again, same thing here, we're just dividing that space between the corner and the center. And then we are going to further divide those. And actually, before we do that, we can go ahead and divide the space between these two holes on the shorter side as well, too.

Like that Same thing over here. And then we would divide the space between these and divide the space between these. So, it's gonna be the same on this side as it is to this side. I'm just gonna be showing you this because you don't need to see me punch a million holes. I think you get it.

Um, and now I'm further dividing each one along that long side. And then I'm going to further divide each of these along the short side. And all of this is in your download. I have a diagram. I, I, I, you know, I talk you through it also, um, but there's a little diagram here with color coded little dots explaining the halfway points and all that stuff.

Um, but then you'll have a total of 24 holes all the way around the edge there, OK? So we would have that if I had punched them along this edge. And since my whole punch doesn't work so great, then I have to go through and cut off all of these little bits here. Like that. They don't need to be a perfect round circle.

You're gonna crochet into these holes anyway, so it really doesn't matter. So you can just snip all those off, and then you're ready to go. So I'm going to transition over to the piece I already punched out. That's right here. So that's ready to go.

And we are staying with the smaller hook here for this section. Um, I'm going to grab my main color. So whatever color you're planning on using for the edging of your book, so what I mean is the main color is the part that goes all the way around the sides here and it's on binding. Whatever color you're going to use, you're going to be, um, for that, you're going to be working a round of crochet right into this felt piece here. So, I'm going to start with a slipknot on my hook.

And I'm gonna start by working along one of the longer sides. OK? So, I crochet from right to left. I'm going to be going from here to there. If you're a left-handed crochet, you would start here and go across the length of yours.

All right, so I'm gonna just insert, so I've got my slipknot on my hook. I'm gonna insert my hook into that hole. You're over, pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through 2. That's my first single crochet. I'm gonna do 2 more into that same hole.

So 1. And 2, then I'm going to move on to the next hole right here, and I'm going to do 3 right here. So when you're doing this, you want to make sure you're bringing up that loop to the top edge of your felt. So you're bringing up that hook up here, instead of just, you know, doing it down here, it's gonna get all kind of crumpled. Just bring your loops up, just sort of have to adjust them.

It feels very awkward to do this at first, but it gets better, I promise. And do you guys know where I learned this skill from? Does anybody want to guess? I guess that's kind of a, a vague question. But I'm just gonna tell you, um I had a friend many years ago and her mom would make these beer can hats.

You guys have probably seen these. Maybe that started in the 60s or 70s, I'm not really sure, but people would take a. A can of beer and then they would cut open the, the, the beer can. You'd cut off the top and the bottom and then you could use a whole punch to cut the holes in it, and then you'd crochet all around it. And surprisingly, it wouldn't cut you after you did that because that metal could be really sharp before you get the crochet around it.

But um that is where my, like, when I was trying to figure this book out, I'm like, there has to be a way to make the back of it stiff without doing something really complicated. And then I was like, oh yeah, beer can hats. So maybe you want to make a beer can notebook. I don't know. All right.

So we've done 3 single crochets into each hole, and then we get to the corner, and then we're going to do 6. So, there's 34. 5 And 6, and then we're going to continue doing 3 in each hole across to the corner. There we do 63 in each hole across here, so we get to the corner, 6 here, and then we'll turn and do the same thing. So basically, if it's a corner, you're making 6, if it's not, you're making 3.

So, your piece will look like this. This is just before we join at the very end. So I've worked into the last hole, and now I'm going to make my 3 single crochets into that very first hole we worked into. So, 12. And 3, and then we can slip stitch into the top of that first single crochet we made.

To join our round, OK? So that's what your piece should look like. And now, at this point, we can attach it to one of our covers. So either one doesn't matter. We're going to chain one and we're going to flip this piece over so that we're looking at the wrong side of it.

Oh, and I'm just gonna tuck this little tail in. Just like this. We'll get that in there. I'll go in two directions. We just kind of want to get rid of that, because otherwise, it's gonna be trapped between layers and it might poke out later and not be good.

OK. So, now we're going to place one of our you know, one of the cover pieces, so that's one of the rectangles, right on top of where we're working. OK. And then at this point, I like to just pin all the corners together. You, if you're good at counting your stitches and everything makes sense to you with the pattern, which I'll be showing you, you don't actually have to pin these together with your stitch markers, um, but I think the first time you do this, it would be a good idea just to do that, just to make sure that you're on track as you're stitching around.

OK. So, in order to attach these pieces together, what we're going to be doing is we're going to be working into the chain spaces at the corner. So, each corner in our granny square is going to get 4 stitches. However, there aren't exactly the same amount of stitches in this part in the granny square section as there are right here. So I'm going to be talking you through that.

There's just a couple of little anomalies. So when we work our 4 single crochet stitches into each of those corners, we're actually only going to be working through 2 of the stitches of this is called the end paper, that's what I call the section of it. So we're only going to be using up 2 stitches at each corner with those 4 stitches. So what that means is there's 2 stitches into each stitch of the corner. So I'll explain a little bit more.

I know that might be a little confusing, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to put my hook through this chain space, then it's going to come out behind in the first stitch, and I'm going to make a single crochet. So yarn over, pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through too. Now, I'm gonna go back into that very same space, that very same stitch, the same space in the granny square, and the same stitch in the end paper, same stitch, and make another single crochet. So now we're going to stop with this corner for right now, and we're going to complete that corner when we get to the end of the round.

We're just going to stop on that, and we're going to move to the next stitch. So we're going to insert our hook through the next stitch and through the stitch behind. And we're going to drop a loop, yarn over and pull through 2 for a single crochet. OK, so the same thing with this, we're going through two layers, each going into the next stitch. Pull up a loop, yarn over, and pull through 2.

OK, so we're just going to do this across. The one issue is that we are going to have to skip one of the stitches of the end paper. It doesn't matter which one. I usually work partway through, and then let's say here we're going to skip a stitch. So I'll go into the very next stitch of the granny square.

I'm going to skip that stitch. And continue with this stitch. You won't even notice it later, I promise. I know that seems weird. But it's OK.

Um, and then you're just gonna continue working through one stitch in the front, one stitch in the back, OK? So, we're just crocheting them together. Oh, Cindy's saying this would look fab and for spring and Hirschner's wildflowers, yarn colors. I haven't seen those. I'll have to look.

But yeah, nice springy colors would be really pretty. OK. Oh, so here we are at the next corner, and we're going to do the same thing. So we're going through that chain space and we're going to come out one stitch behind there, and that next stitch, make our single crochet. Now we're going to make another single crochet into that very same stitch of the end paper, same chain space, right?

So now we've done 2 in that corner. We're going to do 2 more. So, same space, and now we're going through the following stitch in the end paper. And then we're going to do another stitch right in that very same spot, same stitch of the end paper. All right, and now we will be able to start stitching along this edge here.

So if that got confusing for you and you're like, what are we doing? We're skipping a stitch. OK, and now we're doing two stitches and the uh uh if that is just like stressing you out, guess what? It doesn't actually matter as long as when you crochet around, you, your corners are laying nice and flat, nothing's pulling, and all of your stitches in the granny square are being used, um. You know, I do have specific spots where we're stitching, and I, I am explaining that because I think that it helps when you're, um, you know, especially if you want to.

Everything to just work out. That's why I'm explaining all this, but. If you're like, that's too much for me, all you need to know is you just single crochet all the way around the corners need to be flat. You should have about 30 stitches from one corner um to the next corner along those long sides. And if that's true, if you're off by one stitch or two stitches, it doesn't really matter as long as it's pretty close to that, you should be fine.

So, now we've gotten to the next corner of like our chain space right here. So, the next corner of our granny square, not the next corner of the rectangle, but there's a corner from that, from the granny square. So we're gonna work into that chain space. And then come out the stitch behind in the end paper. Just one stitch in there.

Same thing over here. So we're just doing one stitch into that chain space and one stitch from the end paper behind. And now we're gonna go back to just stitching 1 to 11 to 1 ratio just down that side. And there we are going to be off by one stitch, but this time instead of skipping a stitch in the end paper, what we're going to do is we are, it's the opposite. We are going to work through one of those end paper stitches twice.

So here I'm going to work a stitch one through, you know, through the, through both layers just like normal. Then the next stitch I'm going to work through the granny square and then through the very same end paper stitch I just worked into, and now our stitch count will be even. And we'll just continue to the next corner. So, to sum this up, and this is all written in the pattern, but I know, like, it can be a lot to read a whole paragraph about what you're doing. Um.

Just to sum up, you're just single crocheting all the way around. We're going to start at the corner with those 2 stitches, work across and just skip one of those end paper stitches. Work 4 stitches into that corner. Then when you work across one of the long sides, you have to double up on one of those end paper stitches and work through it twice to make it even, uh, your stitches, your stitch counts even out from the two pieces. So, I hope that helps.

And, you know, like I said before, if you, if that's just like too much to keep all that in mind, as long as you get the corners pinned in and use a single crochet around and everything lays flat and looks fine, that's fine. You can just call it good. OK, so you're gonna go all the way around. You're gonna finish up, you know, by placing two more single crochets into that very first chain space that we worked into, and you can do a little slip stitch, fasten off, cut your yarn. So, your piece will look like this.

You'll just have that edging all the way around, and you can go ahead and weave in your yarn tail. All right, and then. The 2nd Um, Let's see, actually, maybe I will. We'll just pretend I've gone all the way around and this is the very end of my. Of my piece because I want to show you how to do a little bit of single crochet working back and forth.

So what we're doing is we're working on the the spine here of our book. So we just need to do 3 rows back and forth of single crochet. That's all we're doing. Um, so this is after you've completed that round where you attach the two pieces together. One piece you will fasten off just like this.

The second time you do this, you're going to be adding 3 rows of single crochet. OK, so one piece doesn't have it, one piece does have it. All right, so I'm showing you what happens um when you've gone all the way around your piece and you want to start doing those 3 rows. After you do your slip stitch join, you'll just chain one, you'll turn your work, and then you're just going to be looking at the wrong side, and you're going to place a single crochet into each stitch or across. Oh, and I should have switched.

Um, I should have switched to the larger hook here when I did my single crochet, and, but honestly, it really doesn't matter too much when you're sewing your pieces together. But for sure, you need to switch to your, your slightly larger hook when you're doing the single crochet working back and forth for the spine. So you're just placing one stitch into each stitch cross all the way to the end. So, this is, you know, it's, it feels a little weird to be working on this because it's kind of stiff and you, you know, normally with your fabric, it can just sort of fall out of the way, but I like to just sort of, the way that I hold things, I just kind of push on it with my hand and bend it out of the way and stitch across. All right, so you'll just stitch all the way across to till you count 30, and that will end right at the corner.

OK. So you should have 30 single crochets, then you'll chain one and work, you know, then you'll chain one, turn your work, and work across this way, chain one, turn your work. And work again across the wrong side, OK? So you've got just 3 rows. And like I mentioned before, if you, if you've decided that you want to have more pages or fewer pages um in your book, then you can adjust your the length of that spine or the width of that spine accordingly.

So, You know, we only have those 3. Those 3 rows here, which doesn't seem like a lot, but it's pretty stretchy and you want it to be snug. You don't want it to be super loose. Um, so what, what is going to happen next is we're going to be sewing these two pieces together and this is what's going to become, you know, the spine of the book, the covering, they'll wrap around your pages. So if you are not quite sure if you want to add another row or subtract a row, you know, if you're adjusting for a different thickness of of your pages, and they do list, let's see, how thick is this.

I think. Oh, I think I have that in my notes, the notes section here. OK, so my stack was about. A half an inch tall, so this is about 1/5 of an inch for my stack of paper. And if you're more than um.

You know, an 18 or 1/4 of an inch off of that, you might consider doing another row or working one fewer row if it's, if it's shorter. Um, so, but also you can just check it. So you can just make your pieces and then you can. Go ahead and pin them together, or you can seam them together in a different color yarn in case you need to pull it out, um, and then try it around your pages to see if it fits. And you'll see in a little bit what I mean by try it around your pages, because once I stitch this together, I'll show you what I mean.

OK, so once, once you've finished doing your 3 rows of single crochet, you're going to go ahead and seam these pieces together. So, you can fasten off that last row of single crochet with a pretty long yarn tail, and then you're going to just do a little whipstitch, just like we did before when we attached the two pieces, our, our two granny squares together. So I'm just going under both loops of each side. I'm just gonna go ahead and steam this across. While I'm doing this, I will try and catch up with you guys here.

Janice says Grandma, what does that mean, Janice? Um, Cindy says leather working, oh. Is that a question about Maybe I'm missing some comments here. I think I might be missing something. I don't know.

um. Oh, Renee is wondering where I bought the material. I'm guessing you're talking about the stiffenel, Renee, if you're not, then definitely let me know. Um, the stiffen Felt, you can find at craft stores and sadly, Joan, I don't know if you live in the US or not, but Joanne's used to have it. So I'm sure, I know you can find it on Amazon.

That's actually where this came from. I wasn't, I actually bought it because it came with a craft kit for making um. An animal mask, and it is completely the wrong kind of felt for working with that, but I needed the other parts in the in the um. Kit that I bought, so I didn't return it. And so I'm like, oh, I can use it on this project, but you can find stiffenel at craft stores, you know, I'm pretty sure Michael's would have it.

I'm almost positive Michael's has it. Um, but if you, I'm, I know Amazon has it, just type in stiffened Felt. And I don't know. I know you can get it wet and it'll dry just fine. I don't know if you can put it in the wash though.

Like, I don't know if you can put it on a washing machine. I'm not really sure. You could do a little test and see. Um, you know, before you sew it into your project, I guess, you could check and see. Not that you're gonna be washing a journal with the paper in it, but, um, I did make a note in this pattern if you are planning on, you know, going through your journal fairly quickly, and you know that you're gonna want to use, keep continue using the cover because it's gonna definitely outlast your pages.

Um, then the final step where we attach the cover to the pages, if you do that step in a contrasting yarn, it's really easy to just clip your yarn and pull the cover back off and then put in a whole new refill set of pages. So in that way, it's very, very, um, you know, You can definitely reuse things. It's, um, it's very practical in that way, so. Um, if you take the cover off and you, like it got kind of dirty and you wanted to wash it, I'm, I'm pretty sure you can hand wash it, but I don't know what would happen if you put it in the washing machine. It might get kind of creased if it's wet and it's banging around in there.

I'm not really sure. I've never tested that. But it doesn't feel like there's glue in it, if that helps. I know some stiffenfes do feel a little bit like that. So I, you know, they might be made differently, so maybe just do, do a little test.

That's probably the safest thing to do. All right, so I'm just weaving in my yarn tails here, and we've got one more round to do before we can attach our pages to what just happened there. There we go. Um, before we can attach our pages into our book. So this last round, this is where we're going to be adding.

The ties and we're going to be kind of um reinforcing the edge of our of our journal just to make it a little bit more um sturdy. So you're going to grab the same main color yarn, and you can start with, you can start with a slipknot on your hook or you can just pull up a loop either way, it doesn't really matter. I'm going to start with the slipknot on my hook. I'm still using the larger hook, but um let's see, let me make sure I didn't. Oh, we can switch to the smaller hook at this point.

Um, actually, it probably doesn't even matter, honestly. We'll switch to the smaller hook. Then you're going to start by working across these row ends in your binding. So these are kind of just those turned row edges. They just look a little bumpy there.

So we're going to start right here. This is so the felt kind of comes up to right about here. We're going to be working across that area between where the felt edges are, OK? So we're just going to do about 3 or 4 single crochets across this edge, however many seem to fit. I think I'm going to be doing 3 like that.

And now we've reached that last round of single crochet. So we're going to just do slip stitches here. So, to do a slip stitch, you just insert your hook, grab that yarn, pull through, pull through the loop on the hook. Like that. And people tend to make their slip stitches really tight.

So if that's happening for you, then definitely just switch to the larger hook. You'll know if this is, if it starts constricting your work, making something warp, if something isn't sitting flat anymore, um, then you should definitely switch to a larger hook, so that's not happening. So we're gonna do a slip stitch all the way around, and this just makes that edge a little bit more sturdy and less prone to curling. And we're gonna do, we're gonna stop at the point where we seamed our two granny squares together, so about halfway along the long side of the rectangle. Oh, we have a question.

Will Kraft text work as well? I don't know what craft text is. Can you tell me if Kraft text has another name? I wonder. I'm guessing if it anything that can be, you know, that's got a stiffer feel to it that is not gonna shred when you poke holes in it, um, I think really anything like that would work.

Anything that allows you to peel back the cover, to bend the cover, and it's not going to get a crease in it, I, I really think any of that would work just fine. I mean, honestly, you could use a piece of like boxboard even, like if you, if you found like a cool, I don't know, maybe like. You know how um Soda or even like 6 packs of beer. They have such cool art on the box board now. You could even use that and poke holes in it.

You just wouldn't be able to, it just wouldn't be quite as um resilient if it kind of got, you know, shoved into somebody's backpack and kind of bent or something like that, you'd get a crease in it. All right, so here we are right at that section that changes from one granny square to the next. OK? So once you get there, I'm going to go one more stitch, just another slip stitch. And now we're going to chain 31.

So I'll only change, now I'll I'll do 31, 9, 1011, 12. 12. Actually, I'm going to stop early because I just imagine I changed 31 just in the interest of time. I won't make you watch that. Then we're going to skip the very last chain we made and we're going to work into the bottom of our chain.

So the bottom of the chain is the side that has all those little dashes on it. If you look at your chain and you can see the little Vs, that's the top of your chain. So you can roll that over onto the table and you can see all those dashes, and we're going to work into those dashes. So we're going to make a slip stitch into each one of those dashes. And this is what's going to make that tie, that cord.

So we're just gonna work our way back down. This is a little bit of a splitty yarn here, sorry guys. All right, I have just a few more to do. You would be doing 30 slip stitches here, cause you're gonna chain 31, and then you're gonna do 30 slip stitches. It's really not the number that really matters.

It's just if the cord is long enough um to be able to tie. OK, so then once you get back here, you're just going to continue your way, doing your slip stitches into the next stitch. Like that. And you're going to work all the way around, slip stitch all the way around until you get to the opposite side of that um that little spine right there. Then you'll do your 3 or 4 single crochets right there, and then you will do slip stitches all the way around to the next side where you're going to put a tie.

So the tie goes right in the middle where one granny square meets the other. So you'll do, again, you'll just chain 31. Do 30 slip stitches back, and then do slip stitches all the way around, and you'll do a little slip stitch join at the very end, and you can weave in your ends. So then you will have a piece that looks like this. OK, so it's all has a nice edging, you have these niceties, and then you are ready to add your pages.

Oh, we've got some, OK. You had stuff that we wanted to guess where you learned how to do this. Oh, OK, yes. I already forgot what I was talking about. So if I learned it from my grandmother, she did not teach me how to make a beer can hat.

OK, thank you, Janice, for, for letting me know what all those, uh, words were. Yes, you would guess grandma. Yeah. And that is actually a very good guess. My grandmother was a prolific crocheter actually, and my great grand grandmother, and my mom also, my mom taught me how to crochet.

And also my aunt Bonnie, who might still be on here, um, watching. She was a big time crochet. She still is a big time crocheter. In fact, I was just looking at crochet at her place the other day. Um, OK.

Leatherworking, yes, that makes sense. The beer can hat, yes, yeah, leatherworking, that would, that would be a good guess too. Who knew it would be so lowbrow as a beer can hat. You guys are giving me more credit. OK, so I'm going to stitch this clothes using a different contrasting color.

Maybe I'll just grab. I do, you just want to use a color that contrasts with the main color. Um, Because that way, if you want to change the pages out later, you can totally do that. So, this needs to be pretty long, a pretty long strand. Let's see, do I say how long in here?

Let me just double check and see. Um, I did not, but it just needs to be, I would say start with at least 1 yard. Maybe like 1 yard. 25, but doubled. OK, so I'm using two strands here.

Um, and I'm going to cut this right here, and then we're gonna, we're going to fasten our, we're going to use these um stitch markers to sort of pin around our pages. So as you can see, I just laid all my pages down. And try to keep it so that the holes are still all stacked up. Now, if you're worried about them shifting around, you can take a piece of yarn and just tie two of the holes together. I'm just going to kind of hold it, um, and then you can remove those ties later if you want.

So, I'm gonna fold this over. Around my book, and what we're going to do is we're going to be stitching right in this crack here, right above that granny square. And when we sew through, we are actually going to be sewing through the holes in our pages here, OK? You don't, we're not sewing through the holes in the end paper. That has absolutely nothing to do with this step.

We're going to be stitching through just that spine section. So I'm going to pull these around and I'm gonna pin. Use my stitch marker to pin the corners around. Those pages, kind of keep them in place. Cause we don't want everything shifting around while we're doing this.

That would be very frustrating. OK. Oh, Marisa's Kraftex is like the label on Levi's. OK. I think that would work great, actually.

Yeah, I, I think that would be an excellent substitute. OK, so she's talking about substituting that instead of the stiff and felt. Yeah, that would work great. Or I mean, you could use leather if you happen to have leather leather, that would be, you know, you could do that too, or like a, a vinyl kind of thing. That would, um, although punching the holes just depending, might be a little tricky for those things, but maybe you can use um a rotary cutter with holes in it, then you just sort of have to distribute and make sure you have the same amount of stitches across.

All right, so, now we're just going to be sewing through those holes that I showed you in the, in our stack of papers. So, I'm going to start By just going through here, and I am gonna just kind of peek in there and see where my hole is. OK, so, I'm just feeling around here with my needle. Where did that hole go? There it is.

OK. Just making sure it's pretty even, so I'm going to place my needle through. Sewing in and out, I'm just gonna kind of push that granny square this way. We don't want to stitch into the granny square. And we're going to leave a long enough tail here so that we can tie to it later.

Just like that. And now we're gonna go back down into the next set of holes. I can kind of feel them now. So I'm just using my needle to kind of, I, you know, I'm just stabbing through the stabbing through the crochet, going through that hole, you know, before you do this, you can take a picture of the spacing of those holes that might actually help you. You can also peek in there a little bit, like, but your pages might slide around.

So you'll know how many holes to go through if you can kind of see. Basically, we're just sewing back and forth, and I've got 3 holes on each side, so 123. And then I've, I have to do kind of a longer stitch to get over to my next group of three. So, if you, if you use some other kind of paper, or put your holes in different places, your spacing might be different than mine. Here we go.

And there's my 3rd 1. And then I like to go around the bottom. So there, there's a hole here in my page, there's no more holes in the page, but I like to send my needle through. I don't know if you guys can see this, but it's just going through just to the outside. Of my paper there, OK?

Just like right next to it and out through the other side. I feel like this just helps hold it a little better. That's optional. You don't have to do that, but I feel like it's gonna keep the paper from um wiggling. And now I'm going to go back in the opposite direction.

So I'm going up through that hole. Down through the next one. And this is easier because you've already stitched through it, so your stitches will kind of tell you where the holes are. Still might have to kind of feel around in there with the needle a little bit. There we are.

And there is my last hole, and again, just like the other side, I am gonna go through. My, um, the spine, just, even though there's no hole here, I'm just putting my needle on the top of the edge of those pages and coming out. Through the the other side of the spine. OK, and then if you're feeling. Um, like, it's long enough, you could go through, you know, back and forth a second time.

I feel like this is pretty good cause I'm using two strands. Um, so what I would do is just tie these two together. Actually, we'll do this. I'll leave my needle attached there, and I'm gonna tie them together and try to put the knot here up at the top. Actually, I'm gonna put it towards the bottom.

I feel like that's gonna be a better spot. So, I'm gonna try to put the knot toward the bottom of that stitch is what I was trying to say. And then I can weave in. This little yarn tail, so I still have my needle attached, and then I can weave in. This little section into the spine area.

Like that. Cut that off, and then we'll do the 2nd. Tail as well. OK, let's see. Oh, Cork also, Marisa's Cork, yeah, that would be really cool looking.

I haven't worked with cork that much, only a couple of times, but I just love how it looks. OK. Yeah, that's a really good idea actually. I bet that would cut through pretty well too. All right, so then you can just tuck that yarn tail in there.

And we'll open this up and you guys can see what it looks like. So there's our pages are all secure in there now. Stuck inside the cover. And that's it. So then you can go ahead and tie it up, um.

So one thing I did do is I did steam the tie from this piece beforehand, you know, before this event, just so that it wouldn't be all curly. So that's just something to think about. Other than that, you don't, you know, if you steam your square to be the right size and all that, and it can kind of lay flat a little bit better, or if one square is a little bigger than the other, sometimes that happens when you're making things with scraps, you know. Um, but steam blocking is your friend. Also, also you can do wet blocking too if you're using like animal fibers or cottons or whatever.

Um, but yeah, of course, you don't need to block it after you put the pages in. You don't want to get wet and you don't want to put steam on it. So think about that stuff before you put the pages in. All right, I hope I answered everybody's questions. I think that I did, um, and thank you guys for being so active in the chat and saying hello and guessing where I learned that skill from.

And reminding me what I'm talking about and all that. So I appreciate you guys being here in just a little bit, like at 11:30 in about 15 minutes, I'm gonna have another live event where I'm gonna show you how to make yarn out of old t-shirts. So if you guys are interested in something a little bit again, something a little bit outside of the box, then please join me for that. Thank you guys so much for being here. Bye, everybody.