A week and two days ago,while sitting at an SnB at A.C. Moore, I bought some gorgeous mill end yarn. I bought a bag each of white,cocoa brwon,pink,and turquoise yarn that just sang to me. I knew that they were destined to come together in an afghan,but what to make? Patternwise that is. So I started one that very day using the Brain Dead pattern that my friend Barbara shared with me. It started off fine,but just seemed a bit small. When I got home,I frogged it and started again,just in case I had gotten the chain count wrong. Nope,chain count was right apparently,as it was still quite small. Hmmm. Let me try a different yarn. Same hook,same count,same (supposedly) weight yarn,but much more satisfying size wise. Being the size queen that I am (shut up), I decided to frog once more.
Off to Ravelry I went in search of another pattern. Search and search and search some more. Ah Ha!! The Progressive Stitch Pattern Afghan looks promising! So I grabbed my hook and the yarn and off I went. After 24 rows,I measured to see the size of the square. I liked it so I determined that each color would get that many rows before the straight section. Once there,I decided to give 2 rows to the last mitered bit and then 11 rows each of the remaining three colors. Beauty!
As you can see,the pattern starts off very much like a mitered granny square,builds from one corner up and then gos back and forth in stripes. I reall like this simple and quick pattern,and i can see more ‘ghans using this pattern in my future.
I don’t know how much yarn i actually used,yardage or weight wise,but each bag was a pound of yarn holding 4 skeins each of different size,and i used 3 brown,and 2 each of white,pink,and turquoise.
Now onto my next ‘ghan! A round ripple in light sage and country rose!
Barbara said,
March 19, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I see it’s not just my time on the comments that is off, yours it too. It says you posted the above an hour from now and my last comment said I posted it 4 hours from now. I’m confused easy enough as it is, as you know, I don’t need the time to join in on my confusion!!
I really like how the afghan came out. I’ve never seen one like that so I’m off to Ravelry to find it. It will be in my “things to make”. I still haven’t made the round ripple which I was going to do a couple of months ago.
Keep crocheting and keep your blog!!!
Jessica said,
April 4, 2008 at 1:48 am
I love it! That is a great color combo. Woo!