Finished

It's finished! Unfortunately the lighting stinks and I don't have anyone here to hold the blanket up nicely so that you could see all the edging, so I hung it over my antique wash table in my bathroom but the sides hang down. Oh well... Here it is.

Let it snow, let it snow

There are flakes falling outside and there should be more flakes here inside too but I can't seem to find the right color of blue to finish my snowflake afghan. I ran out of the Red Heart blue I was using. I thought it was called midnight blue but I can't find that anywhere and I've been to Michaels, Hobby Lobby, JoAnn's and two different Walmarts! The closest I coudl find was called soft navy but there seems to be a color difference. I'm going to work up a few motifs tonight and see if I notice the color change or not. I still have 13 motifs to fnish plus the the edging. Here is how the afghan looks tonight.




The other afghan that I'm working on is this one. It is worked in a different color for each row in order to see the stitching, so there are lots of little tails to tuck in! I love how it is turning out though and its an easy one to work on. Just single crochet, double crochet and then treble crochet. You end each row with the treble crochet and then you tie off, turn the piece and start with a new color. You would start the new color with a single crochet on top of the treble crochet from the last row. Very simple, very fast.

Progress

This is NOT a good picture. There are windows on both sides and the lighting made the midnight blue look almost black. I'll try to take a better picture this evening.

It's fun to see some of the strips stitched together. I love the afghan and will have a hard time parting with it after all the labor of love. :-) I believe I have 5 more rows to go in order to finish this. It's coming along quickly though. I started it two weeks ago and I've not been able to work on it everyday.

Because I'm crazy...

... I started another afghan. I have so many projects that I want to get to but don't have the time. I think we are taking the whole month of December off of school and focusing on hospitality, handiwork and cooking. :-) Maybe then I'll finish everything in time for gift giving.

I went to my second weight watchers meeting tonight. I'm down 6.8 lbs in two weeks. Yay!

Snowflake Afghan Update

I decided to go with the Midnight Blue.

So far I've gotten the first strip of 7 done and stitched together. I have one more white snowflake to border and then I'll stitch together the second strip.

I came across some cute totes that I'd like to make as gifts too but I need to get a bit further along with the afghan before I start another project.

Snowflake Afghan

I came across this pattern for the Snowflake Afghan while reading a thread at Crochetville and just knew that this was the afghan I wanted to make for our family Christmas exchange. I like the afghan blocked in blue like the pattern picture but I had some deep burgandy and thought I would work one up in that to see which I liked best. The picture seems to show the color as more of a red but it is a deeper color. I still think I like the blue. What do you think?

Shawl for Samantha

I made this shawl up as I went, lol. It was made at least 3-4 years. I can't remember exactly when but my dd looks very young in this photo.