Summer Project Complete!
It's always nice to close the week with an upbeat post! What better than a completed project? Wish it was one of mine! LOL! DD#1 started crocheting me a cotton afghan for those hot summer months in late March. I was delighted at the time, since I prefer cotton when the mercury climbs. The yarn was purchased about 4 years ago from Little Knits , fully expecting to find/make time to knit it up myself. I wound it into cakes and browsed my patterns. Well that was a plan until 2 years went by and I realized if I didn't arrange to have her do it another 2 would go by and it would still be in my stash! Of course the skein labels are long gone. I do remember it was a higher grade cotton yarn and very shiny. I wasn't all that crazy about the colorway but I thought, if it's a blanket I'm going to have my eyes shut when I'm using it so what does it matter? Ha! One nice thing is that the color changes in the yarn are long so even crocheted the colors come up as a checkerboard which I thought was pretty cool. It's something I keep in mind when I'm spinning multi-colored fiber - crochet and knit produce very different color patterns in a multi-colored yarn simply because it takes less yarn to make a knit stitch than a crochet group so you'll have longer patches of a single color in knit than crochet. The wool blanket she crocheted (a few posts back) is a classic example of color changes that are too short to be shown off to their best advantage as a crochet project.
Anyways, as the spring drifted into summer she wasn't making great headway on it. Partly because as it got warmer who likes to have their lap full of blanket? Secondly, the yarn was, after all, cotton. Rather inelastic at best plus she quickly grew weary of the bright pink and shade green. Eventually she shifted to several smaller projects and in late August started the previously posted wool blanket. Once it was done though, she was determined to get the cotton blanket out of her crochet basket so she could start something she liked. Kudos to her for persistence! Of course the humorous part of this story is that it's much too cold for cotton now - I'll have to wait another 8 months or so for it to warm up enough to use it! Cheers all!
Anyways, as the spring drifted into summer she wasn't making great headway on it. Partly because as it got warmer who likes to have their lap full of blanket? Secondly, the yarn was, after all, cotton. Rather inelastic at best plus she quickly grew weary of the bright pink and shade green. Eventually she shifted to several smaller projects and in late August started the previously posted wool blanket. Once it was done though, she was determined to get the cotton blanket out of her crochet basket so she could start something she liked. Kudos to her for persistence! Of course the humorous part of this story is that it's much too cold for cotton now - I'll have to wait another 8 months or so for it to warm up enough to use it! Cheers all!
That's a lot of work! I can't seem tocommit to a project as large as a Blanket. Lucky for you that you have talented girls to help! The color change does look perfect with the stitch, that moving checkerboard effect is cool
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What a lovely blanket...great colours too.
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She did a great job! That will be nice to have on the cool, summer evenings.
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