The blanket is really growing. I added 2 rows last night and am working on a 3rd one. Just looking at it laying out flat makes it look impressive. It is laying on a queen sized futon so as you can see it touches the edges. I forget how big a queen is when it is a square so I am going to look that up tonight.
Yep, a big ole knot. So today I tackled that knot so I can work on this again. It only took an hour but that was an hour that I was unable to watch children as, unlike knitting and crochet, you can not actually watch the kids and work on it. So now I can work on it again and as such will be loading a pic of progress tomorrow.
I made quite a few of the African flowers yesterday (well except for the single crochet edge). As you can see they are made from all sorts of scraps and weights. I am planning on buying a superwash wool and making a double crochet row and doing the "join as you go" method by Heidi Bears. Seems better than actually sewing the things! I haven't yet decided if the single crochet row should be a uniform color or not. Uniform color would mean a uniform yarn and less changes in weight of yarn, but what color to choose as every color is being used somewhere... On the other hand I could also do the single crochet border in scraps yarns as well, but may get some really off combos and different weights which may mean a 2nd double crochet row in the joining yarn to compensate for slight size variations. I am not really leaning toward either right now and won't decide for a while yet anyway.
So I have startitus. I started another project. This time scrap yarn and the African Flower motif. I am randomly pulling yarn out of a bag and adding it. Makes for some odd flowers... sock yarn, Extra bulky, sock yarn... yea, that is odd. I am having fun with all the novelty yarns I have received over the years.
