Taking Charge

48 / 48 centers are completed. The rest of the afghan is going to be done in two shades of green. I have a paddy green and I want to do it with an emerald green as well.

I still haven’t decided on when yarn shopping will happen. It’s a bit of an annoyance, since it means going to the city. I should likely wait until after my birthday but I don’t want to. I do intend to go to Walmart first and see what they have and pick up more white to go with the princess blanket.

Anyway. Enough yarn babble for the day. I should work on the second part of the Lapghan squares. All 48 of them. Ugh.

I have finished 30/48 of the Lapghan centers. The rest will be finished today sometime if it kills me. This means that I need to figure out the other colors I want to use for it. I haven’t decided if I want to do multiple colors using yarn I have left over from other stuff or if I want to buy yarn specifically for it. I don’t really have enough shades to do it with what I have, since it’s lighter, then darker of the same color. I have 2 shades of green that I could use. A forest green and a paddy green. I was also considering lavender and purple as well, which means I have to yarn shop for those. I have 18 more centers before I really need to make the decision on that. *laugh*

I finally decided on the pattern for the princess blanket. It’ll be done with two shades of pink and white. The center and trim will be white with the shades of pink in between. I did a sample square with the pink in the center and white for the trim and really didn’t care for the way it worked out. It was too much of the light pink. But it’s also the wrong shade and weight, so it might look different when I get the right ones. That’ll teach me to send Rob to pick up yarn for me without a specific color name! *grumble*

I’ll likely go yarn shopping Friday after Rob gets paid. I haven’t decided yet. I really don’t have any major bills to pay this week, auto-debits are deducted too, so.. Hmm.. maybe.

This, my friends, is the completed blanket. I finished it just after midnight last night. This is the first afghan that I’ve made and first large project that I’ve finished. I’m psyched about that. I usually get frustrated and bored, then toss stuff aside. So I’m really proud of myself for getting this done. I just need to get it packed up and mailed off to the mother-to-be. That means I need to get her address. *whistles*

This is the first hat that I made. I had a bunch of leftover burgundy yarn from an afghan my mother made for me, so I figured I would work up a hat for Rob with it. I made him model for me tonight so that I could post pictures. No, he didn’t want to. Oh well. He didn’t get much of a choice. I told him to put it on so I could take pictures, can you tell he wasn’t enthused?

My next project is going to be my first afghan for donation. I’ve started the centers of the squares the other night, but I put it aside in hopes of finishing the baby blanket first. Tonight, however, I’ve spent the night trying to find a pattern that we KNOW we have somewhere around here. It’s for the afghan that my mother made for me a couple years ago. We can’t find the book and the pattern is not online as far as I can tell. Hell, the one that I’m working on (pictured left) isn’t even available online. That picture was from an ebay auction of the pattern (linked on the image). Someone clipped the pattern from an old (1985) Annie’s Pattern Club book. I have the actual complete book. It’s been well loved. (aka beaten up and abused) My mother has made several of them and they look really cool when they’re all done and sewn together. She’s done so many color variations that it’s not even funny. I will be getting to work on the centers tomorrow or so, tho. I have 45 more to make. Then I can figure out what other colors I’m going to use.

I also have a pink afghan to work on too for a princess and one for a nephew too. Egad, I’m turning into a crochet whore! <<.<< I need a better crochet icon.

THE BABY BLANKET IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictures forthcoming in the daylight.

I’m so fucking happy that it’s finished.

So, my sister had a bread machine she wasn’t using. I had mentioned that I wanted one, so she brought it down when they came for Christmas. I was excited, but it didn’t have a book, so it took me a bit to find a decent wheat bread recipe for it (thanks ). I finally put the ingredients together one day last week and set it up and such, lo and behold, it didn’t work.

Well, I got looking and found a really nice bread machine on amazon and Mom ordered it for me. We got the package today and I immediately decided to make bread. I’m so happy with it. I made whole wheat bread and it turned out really nice. Definitely easier than making bread by hand! Even if they do call me a cheater.
I sat and crocheted on the baby blanket for a while today, so I’m closer to done on that. I’m hoping one more round will be enough to do it so that I can trim it and get it shipped off. *bounce* Then I can move on to the pink and white blanket.