The border around the whole thing is one pattern row in black and gray, one half crochet row in soft white and a three double crochet shell border.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Dalsey's Afghan
I finished this June 6, 2010. One of the fastest afghans I've ever made.
The border around the whole thing is one pattern row in black and gray, one half crochet row in soft white and a three double crochet shell border.
The border around the whole thing is one pattern row in black and gray, one half crochet row in soft white and a three double crochet shell border.
Friday, May 28, 2010
May 28, 2010
As you may have noticed I have transported the posts below that were previously published on my home page about my knitting and crocheting into this new home so I can use it primarily as a resource for me so those people not interested in the knitty gritty (hee hee hee) of yarns and patterns and whatnot don't need to visit this page.
As published below, I started this black verigated afghan for a graduation gift with a time limit. I want it to be done before June 10th.
I started it May 25th.
Here is what it looked like on May 27th. I can do a stripe a day. I think I will need 7 stripes.
I found a neat book about crocheting, "The Complete Photo Guide to Crochet".
One of the features of this book, is a catalog of stitches. I want to try them all. I used this one below on the black/white afghan. It is quick and easy with the "K" hook and 4 ply red heart acrylic yarn I'm using.
As you may have noticed I have transported the posts below that were previously published on my home page about my knitting and crocheting into this new home so I can use it primarily as a resource for me so those people not interested in the knitty gritty (hee hee hee) of yarns and patterns and whatnot don't need to visit this page.
As published below, I started this black verigated afghan for a graduation gift with a time limit. I want it to be done before June 10th.
I started it May 25th.
Here is what it looked like on May 27th. I can do a stripe a day. I think I will need 7 stripes.
I found a neat book about crocheting, "The Complete Photo Guide to Crochet".
One of the features of this book, is a catalog of stitches. I want to try them all. I used this one below on the black/white afghan. It is quick and easy with the "K" hook and 4 ply red heart acrylic yarn I'm using.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Another Afghan
May 24, 2010
I started this afghan May 5. I wanted to finish it for another wedding gift. It was an easy pattern and worked up quickly.
Finished!
A close up of the pattern.
The next one! Started May 25th.
I started this afghan May 5. I wanted to finish it for another wedding gift. It was an easy pattern and worked up quickly.
Finished!
A close up of the pattern.
The next one! Started May 25th.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The Creation of an Afghan
March 28, 2010
I'm going to do something different with this posting. I had an idea for a new afghan and figured out the pattern and dimensions and then lost them. Since it is a ripple afghan, I don't really need a pattern, so I'm going on with with I do remember.
I'm going to post all photos and notes as I go under this one heading and change the date so that it is always near the top. That way the project will be together from start to finish and I can watch it grow myself.
When using up some scrap yarn to make a scrap afghan I thought an afghan in rainbow colors would be pretty, but I didn't want primary colors, so I chose these. It is just red heart, acrylic, 4 ply yarn. I would like to use nicer yarn, but as it is more expensive, I just use this. It wears well.
First I made a chain of quite a bit longer than I wanted. Then made the ripple pattern with 9 stitches on the incline and descent, with three stitches in the "top" stitch of the ripple and skipping two a the bottom, using an almost white, but not quite yarn.
I've started the edge with one row of each color separated by the soft white, working in the back stitch of each single crochet.
I'm not really sure which side should be considered the right side, since the above photo shows the colors more than this lower photo, in which the afghan is turned over.
Now working on the body of the afghan, with larger stripes of each color.
It is turning out narrower than I wanted, so I will have to pay attention to how long it is getting. I did a little figuring all ready to make sure I don't end up with something long and skinny.
I'm going to do something different with this posting. I had an idea for a new afghan and figured out the pattern and dimensions and then lost them. Since it is a ripple afghan, I don't really need a pattern, so I'm going on with with I do remember.
I'm going to post all photos and notes as I go under this one heading and change the date so that it is always near the top. That way the project will be together from start to finish and I can watch it grow myself.
When using up some scrap yarn to make a scrap afghan I thought an afghan in rainbow colors would be pretty, but I didn't want primary colors, so I chose these. It is just red heart, acrylic, 4 ply yarn. I would like to use nicer yarn, but as it is more expensive, I just use this. It wears well.
First I made a chain of quite a bit longer than I wanted. Then made the ripple pattern with 9 stitches on the incline and descent, with three stitches in the "top" stitch of the ripple and skipping two a the bottom, using an almost white, but not quite yarn.
I've started the edge with one row of each color separated by the soft white, working in the back stitch of each single crochet.
I'm not really sure which side should be considered the right side, since the above photo shows the colors more than this lower photo, in which the afghan is turned over.
Now working on the body of the afghan, with larger stripes of each color.
It is turning out narrower than I wanted, so I will have to pay attention to how long it is getting. I did a little figuring all ready to make sure I don't end up with something long and skinny.
May 5, 2010
So much for updating progress as I go along, since it is now finished.
Accessories not included.
After finishing the stripes, I thought the edges looked a little plain so I put a soft white single crochet edging on the sides.
The picture below shows the whole pattern better.
If you notice the stripes on the end are opposite, one is light and the other dark. I goofed by using an odd number of rows between the main body of the afghan and the top and bottom.
It is all packaged and ready for giving. And it isn't going to anyone that regularly reads my blog. (I don't' think, anyway.) I've already decided on the recipients.
And look, I've already started another one.
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