More About The Blanket

It turns out that I started this project on February 28, 2015. The overall blanket is 8 squares by 10 squares and, according to my notes in Ravelry, I finished the squares on April 12, 2015. Although I did pull the squares out to work in ends from time to time, this project sat untouched for the past 4 years.

As I was making progress on it, I thought that it would be nice to complete it in time for my second vaccine. I felt crummy for about 24 hours after my first shot, including feeling very cold at times. Assuming that same will happen with the second one, I thought it would be nice to have the new blanket.  I did not set it as a goal and I wasn't really pushing for that, since I make myself a bit crazy when I do. Although, somehow, the timing worked out so that I finished it last night and my shot is this afternoon, so maybe I'm just kidding myself that I didn't have a goal to finish.

So far, the blanket is a big hit with me and with the cats. The picture in the first post is Chandler, who jumped up on my lap last night right after I finished.

In these photos, Hammett is the cat model.

It's hard to get the entire thing in one picture, so here is most of it.

This is about half of it.

Here is most of the other half.

I really love it and I'm sort of fighting with myself at the moment. Occasionally, a project just does not end up being for me. This may sound a little strange, but I'll get this whisper that it's not mine. Sometimes it's clear who it is for, but most of the time it's not, initially.  I'm having a little of that with this one. I am going to use it and enjoy it post-vaccine and see what I think after that. I figure either the whisper will go away or it will get louder.

A Big Warm Hug

I finished the crocheted afghan blanket last night.  When it was done and I put it on my lap, it felt like a big warm hug. Even better, it attracted a cat.  More accurately, of course, it attracted a cat.

To counteract all of the ugliness taking place in my community, I wish I could offer a moment of peace and comfort to anyone who needs it.

It's Time

It's time to finish the granny square afghan that I started a long time ago. The squares, themselves, were finished 4 - 5 years ago. Several weeks ago, I went searching for them. I thought I had worked all the ends in, but discovered that 28 squares still needed to be done. Next up, I counted the squares that I had and was perplexed why there were 57 of them. I knew that I had finished all of the squares and that it would make a decent size cover for sitting around. I couldn't remember how many squares wide versus tall it would be, but 57 squares made no sense. After digging around a bit, I found the other zip lock bag which contained 23 squares. 80 squares, it is.  An afghan of 8 squares by 10 will work nicely.

I used Kristin's pattern for it and when it came time to sew it together, I went with her recommendation for that, as well. 

I started the final assembly last night while watching an episode of All Creatures Great and Small. I almost got the first strip sewn together and since I had a pretty great creature sitting on my lap at the time, I decided that he should model the first strip, since it looks like a scarf.

Hammett is enjoying a nap in the background, undisturbed on the foot stool behind Chandler.  Earlier in the evening, we  folded laundry and, of course, Hammett enjoys curling up on top of the nice, fresh, clean laundry.   

It's probably best that Chandler came into my life at this stage. If he was my cat when I was a child, I might have been tempted to try and dress him up for tea parties. When he's sitting on my lap at night, he's warm, cozy, and pretty tolerant, although it is clear that he is not smiling in either picture.