Legacy project: Embroidery, Crochet, and Kntting, Oh My!

This was a total magic trick. I know I've been making fun of all the different steps and skills involved in this project, but the end result is completely impossible: knitting on to a piece of woven fabric.

First up, the embroidery. I was supposed to do this before seaming, but I was worried that the seam would eat up partial chains. Doing it after worked just fine. Three strands of floss, an embroidery needle sharp enough to pierce fabric, but sturdy enough not to be bent -- this fabric is a heavy twill with a satin lining -- and off we go. The instructions specify 4-5 stitches to the inch, and I wing it across one piece of fabric before measuring. Nope. I cannot eyeball distances and I know that. Back it comes (chain stitch, is there anything easier to rip out?). I measure off inches with pins across the bottom edge of the fabric, prepared to count forever. Fortunately, it only takes two inches of chains for me to realize that I can measure my stitches against the serge stitching on the edge of the fabric. One chain to two serge stitches, and I'm off again, removing the pins as I go, and finishing the whole length in no time.

Next, some crochet! The hook size was specified, and although my crochet hooks are lettered rather than numbered and seem vague about their equivalent millimeters, I have the approximate right size. I don't have an afghan hook small enough, so that variant was nipped right in the bud. One single crochet in each chain, one single crochet in every other edge stitch of the knitted section. I did have to refresh my memory on single crochet. I make a lot of dish scrubbies using half-double-crochet (which is not the same as single crochet, get over it, math and language nerds), and my hands now automatically do that stitch unless I carefully watch them at the beginning.

Finally, time to knit! The instructions gave explicit directions -- but no pictures -- on how to hold the fabric and which direction to start from. I had to stop thinking I knew what they wanted and do exactly as instructed. And lo and behold, on the next row I was working twisted rib onto fabric!

I've done the math, and I have enough yarn to do the entire edge in the same yarn. Ordinarily that would argue for mitering the corners and doing it all at once, but I simply do not have enough, or long enough, needles. So, again as instructed, I will work the bottom ribbing and then the side ribbing.