The blanket/afghan is already looking good!
I’m excited. The diamonds kind of look like little stamps, or maybe little patchwork squares sewn roughly together… cute!
By the way, this pattern is not easy on hands. Just a few rows and my right hand starts aching. I’ll keep on keepin’ on, though! More progress soon!
It’s nice and rainy here, so I’ll be working more this evening, but here’s what I’ve got so far:
The red row has those holes at the bottom where the chain was stretched out, but I hope that will be minimized when I put a border on the blanket and even out the chain stitches a bit.
I’m off to hook some more! I think I’ll take this to class tonight…
My flower sunburst granny square afghan is complete! Made from Berroco Vintage Chunky, it’s super heavy and thick, so I know it will be toasty (although I’ll never use this yarn for a blanket again — it’s perfect in every way except that it’s too expensive). It covers a double bed, but the picture below is taken on a queen so you can see it all flat with the cute ruffly border I added. This has been my most expensive afghan, but it might just be the one I’m most proud of, too. Here are the finished pictures.
I hope you like it as much as I do! Now off to make some tea…
I’m finished joining my afghan squares! Turns out it is a little smaller than I thought it would be, probably due to my usage of a smaller hook to sc the squares together (which was done on the back of the piece). I meant to have nice tight joins but I overdid it a bit and it shrunk the overall size of the thing. I have a feeling it will stretch out with usage — it’s a very heavy blanket! I still have to add the border, so I’m not finished yet, but I wanted to share my progress with you because I’m excited to be done with joining the squares (usually the most tedious part of afghans, in my opinion). So here are the pictures!
You can see in that first one where I’ve been sitting on the edge, listening to The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey on iTunes (which is a very good book, by the way).
And there you can see the joins close up! I think it looks pretty neat, if I do say so myself. 🙂 Now on to put on the border!
I’m so excited that I’m done with my blanket squares! Here they are all laid out on our queen size futon/bed so you can get a good perspective. I’m so pumped to share with you!
Aren’t they great? I’m so proud! I’ll crochet the ends in when I slip stitch the squares together, and I’m also planning on adding a decent sized border. The blanket was only supposed to cover a double bed, but I think it’ll cover the queen nicely, don’t you?
Hopefully I’ll get started on putting the squares together soon — I can’t wait to finish!
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