I crocheted this blanket while pregnant with DS originally just to use up left over yarn from my first two crochet projects. It became a baby blanket mostly because the yarn I had happened to be blue and there wasn’t very much of it. I learned only recently that this pattern is called box stitch. It’s the pattern my mother taught me when I first learned to crochet and I never did finish that blanket I started way back then (which coincidently was also blue). For the border I went around it three times in single crochet and then added a block edging. I think it was made with Caron Simply Soft yarn and it’s about a yard square.
It’s my second ever knit project (the first was frogged - not for being bad, just for being useless) and my first kerchief, made with Bernat Baby Coordinates in Soft Mauve and size 7 straight aluminum needles. Blue ones. I still have them. Ah, the memories! I was sitting on the couch with the dog beside me getting bopped in the head repeatedly by my left needle as I knit away and being the good sport that she is, she never complained. I still have the rest of of this yarn and I suppose I’ll make something for DD with it eventually.
Light & Lacy Afghan
This pattern was from a Mainstays label. Actually, it might have been the label from the yarn I started the Diamond Trellis Afghan with now that I think of it because the label says it came from a skein of “Autumn Red”. Well, that solves a mystery. Anyway, the yarn used was Red Heart’s Super Saver’s 0313 Aran. The yarn was given to me and the pattern is one I’ve worked before but ended up using as a dog blanket which in the course of time was destroyed. The two afghans that I’ve completed this month are projects that I started just for the sake of crocheting and to use up yarn. I was originally intending to knit the red and cream into an afghan to match the throw pillows we were given at our wedding shower but it took me so long to get around to it that the dog ended up destroying those pillows anyway and they went in the trash. (Our dog isn’t destructive, she just likes to “nest”).
Finished Thursday, 04.24.08.
SB300-003 Diamond Trellis (Afghan)
The pattern is from the back of a Red Heart Super Saver No Dye Lot label which also happens to be the yarn I’m using to make it. It’s worsted weight in “0332 Ranch Red“. Or at least, most of it is. I started out with a different brand of No Dye Lot yarn and armed with a sample for color matching I sent DH out to get more one evening. I must have bought the original yarn from a different store and DH came home with what looked like a perfect match from Walmart. It’s close, but it’s not a match. This isn’t an heirloom though so after some contemplation (and already being an hour or so into the new yarn) I decided I didn’t care enough to undo it. Unless you were me or had a terribly sharp eye and were specifically inspecting it, you probably wouldn’t notice anyway.
Finished Saturday, 04.19.08.
