Dad's Birthday Blanket.

You may or may not remember the 'Block a Month' squares I've been doing since January? Anyway, when I was at the hospital with my daughter yesterday (she was in for day surgery) I sewed 12 of them together and put a simple edge of single crochet round to finish. My dad is a HGV driver and is often away nights, hopefully this will help to keep him warm. Unfortunately it was actually his birthday yesterday and I didn't get to see him, so after work today I'm going to go and see my mum at her work and give her my dad's birthday gift. I was hoping to be able to give it to my mum on Saturday (her usual day to visit) but I just didn't have time to finish it as I was working on my sister-in-law's costume. I really must learn to say 'no' when people ask me to make them things and only give me a weeks notice. I was hoping to be able to make it larger and put a much nicer edging on it but hopefully he'll still like it anyway, also hoping he'll actually get to use it.

Happy hounds

Dog-ghan 2 is now complete and both dogs are very happy, thought they were going to have a tussle over who got to lay on it first but it worked out fine.

Two very happy dogs now :-)

My hands now feel a little lost, what am I going to do whilst watching TV, will have to find another project, oh, the hardship LOL.

VVS dog-ghan two

Have done six rows so far, shall make it 102 like the last one.

Finished VVS

As you can see I've finished dog-ghan one, edged it with DC. It ended up being 102 rows wide. Both Rusty (pictured) and Bailey love it. The baby cardigan I'm working on just needs the finishing touches then it's good to go.

So many things, so little time...

I'm wanting to make so many things at the moment, there just aren't enough hours in the day. I have been working on the Vintage Vertical Stripe dog-ghan and am now up to row sixty. Really pleased with how quickly it's working up, will soon be on number two, just have to figure out what yarn I'm going to use for it.

I've also made another Dream Catcher, after realising the reason the edges weren't doing it for me was the fact I'd mucked up American and British crochet terms, now have another one that lays much better. Will take a picture and get it up asap.

I also want to get started on February's crochet 12" square Cross my Heart, not too keen on the colours used and will be using a blue as well as the white I used for Dream Catcher (the blue is the only other aran colour I have).

Of course this all means the Hippy Handbag has once again taken a back seat, I will finish it, eventually.

Afghan Pictures

Don't know what's wrong with my camera but I can't get the colour representation to look right. Got it, the top picture shows the colours.

Yay.

The Afghan is finished, will upload a picture tomorrow. I was quite surprised at how fast it went, always thought a blanket/afghan would take forever. It's definitely made me want to do another very addictive although I've still the boarder to do but I guess it's not necessary, think the next one I do will be the Navajo Blanket as it's very beautiful or the what appears to be very easy Vintage Vertical Stripe afghan.

In the end I decided to just stitch the afghan together as it was much easier, as the more squares I added the harder it was to use the method I mentioned in a previous post. I think it's something I need to work on. But very pleased considering at the beginning of December I had no idea how to crochet.

For now I think I'll work on something a little smaller, maybe a bag LOL.

Life gets in the way.

Well as usual things get in the way of what I really want to do, like work on the Afghan. I have finished all the larger squares and I've about five of the smaller still to do, then of course I've got to connect them all and do the edging. Will work on it some more today and see how far I get.

Unfortunately I've the uniforms to get ready for tomorrow plus a fair amount of housework, can't believe how quickly this house gets messy [sigh].

Mum came down yesterday and didn't bring her jacket as she says she's in no hurry, after a word from me she'll bring it next Saturday. It's a Simplicity pattern 3627, I made option B (green jacket on front cover) in a heavyweight brown cotton. As mentioned, she really likes the jacket it's just that the sleeves are to long.

Also my mum mentioned that my gran really likes her bed jacket and it keeps her nice and cosy when reading in bed.

Current project.

I'm currently working on an afghan/throw based on this pattern:

http://cache.lionbrand.com/patterns/cwe-grannySquareAfghan.html?noImages=0

I'm doing it in three shades of green, although in the picture the darkest green looks brown and the lightest looks off white. it's actually mint green, jade green and a khaki green (I'm feeling very green at the moment:-))

I think I'm going to really enjoy crochet, it seems to work up so fast.