Stuff I've done
I got started making blankets as gifts... They are useful and the person enjoys them (I hope), and I get yarn at a super discount.
,Stuff for cousin Trinity:Blanket and Sweater, Emily's Mom's Afghan #1, and close-up of decorative Edging
I JUST FINISHED IT!!!!
Rose Afghan
This was adapted from a crochet book "To grandmothers house we go". It was supposed to be in mint and pink, I'm not a mint and pink kind of person. I also enlarged it from 40 roses to 63. This was a pain in the a$$ too. The roses are so tight that my hand cramped up often. Finished it just in time for a record heatwave (August 2002).
To make the page faster, the photos are available by clicking on the blue headings.
Just Made this last week. Yeah yeah "Oh!!! it looks so hard!!!" It was actually from a book called Pinaepples for Beginners, so it was broken down really easy, easier than the doilies you might see in other books or on your grandma's tabletop. I did find an error in the book too... but I saw that coming so I just worked it like I thought it should have been, and it came out ok. The only really annoying part is the microscopic stitches. You hurt your eyes working this, and after the first 4 hours of work, you have a 2 inch disk.
Blue afghan, adapted from a pattern in "Crochet Fantasy" this past winter. Last time I mentioned it here I had 73 rows to go. I guess that was a month ago or something because I finished it. It was like a giant acrylic weight had been lifted from my lap. It looks Phat, no? Actually I made a boo boo when counting the 248 stitches to begin the afghan (way back in Decenber). I thought I was only off by 2 stitches, which wouldn't show up really. It turned out I was off by one whole triangular motif, plus 2 stitches. A glaring mistake. I spent the next few hours after finishing the afghan unraveling 2 inches off each row for that entire half of the afghan. After I secure those loose ends, it will be officially done. For this shot, the crummy ends were tucked under, obviously.
Floral afghan from "A year of Q-hook afghans". I changed the colors around a bit. I tend to pull my stitches tight, so the motifs are not the 7 inches they were supposed to be, and I might end up making more motifs to get the afghan to the size that I want it. Which, BTW, is large enough to cover most of you and not let in cold drafts. Update: This particular piece began to fall apart on me in February. I do not know if I will be able to fix it. I'm very upset.
My Very First (FINISHED) Afghan
I'm very proud of it
It measures about 58" by 78". There are 90 hexagonal patches. I began this as an afterthought, really. One night after work in November I was practicing some stitches and I ended up with a tacky pink hexagon. The next night I made a similar tacky pink hexagon. It dawned on me that I could make a few more (I honestly thought 'a few' would be all that I'd need to finish this) and turn it into a blanket. The first 50 or so patches were paired by color; each patch had five colors, and the pairs had the colors mixed and matched. The remaining 40 patches were whatever colors I had left. It was starting to go faster since with practice I was able to make a patch in under an hour. After years of having yarn possessing relatives pass away and leave me their yarn to add to my own yarn pile, I had boxes of small odd balls of yarn to use up. I did end up having to buy a skein of black yarn to stitch it together with. I finished it in february, I think, during those blizzards we had.
Afghan investigated by Sneakers right before I tried to catch her and to use her as a prop.
While Sneakers escaped the clutches of the unholy afghan, Spam was more cooperative.
When Sneakers realized that Spam was getting more attention than she was, she hung around and waited for her turn on the afghan of doom.
No animals were harmed in the course of making this page