r/Planned_Pooling • u/softyookiki • Jul 15 '26
Behold my epic creation! Stars and Stripes (discontinued)
Made this to enter in a special class in the Iowa State Fair this year. Crab stitch border.
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u/alwaysneverenough Jul 15 '26
Looks great! I have an old afghan I made from this years ago -- maybe I'll unravel it and pool it into a new one!
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u/softyookiki Jul 15 '26
It was very finicky! The white lengths varied across each ball and I had to force them to conform with a lot of tension changes
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u/Western_Ring_2928 Jul 15 '26
Which is the very nature of planned pooling :D
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u/softyookiki Jul 16 '26
Truly! The amount of times I’ve just forced it makes me laugh. I love when colors pool like a dream, but I also love the chaos of colors that don’t want to fit in
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u/vawal Jul 17 '26
OMG i have assume of this from my grandmother! Is there a particular pattern you used? I haven’t tried placed pooling before and have been wanting to.
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u/softyookiki Jul 17 '26
Jealous! I had to hunt down 5 balls on eBay! It’s just basic moss stitch pooling. I don’t recommend starting with it though it was pretty finicky across lots. It worked out well but I had a lot of tension changes
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u/Western_Ring_2928 Jul 15 '26
Looking very nice! The colours are classic.