October
2, 2004 -- Lacy Blocks" AfghanI
remember when we were living at the townhouse I decided to try again to make an
adult afghan. I was home sick and wanted something to do that wasn't too stressful.
The year before when we were still in our first flat I'd started to crochet
little afghans that I often unraveled again but nothing larger. I'd tried to do
an adult square motif one that never worked out because my gauge was still too
unreliable to have the squares come out the same size each time. I
chose this one out of the Leisure Arts' Quick and Cozy Afghans because
even though it looked like little blocks, it was really worked up as one large
afghan: 
Here's
a close-up of one of the blocks: 
If
you look at the detail photo you can see my gauge then had improved a lot but
was still a wee bit too loose but since this was an open, lacy design it didn't
hurt it too much. I did it in this oatmeal fleck stuff and when it was on the
bed when the bed was made up in solid navy or hunter green sheets it looked really
striking when you first walked into the bedroom. My
mom was very impressed when she first saw it. She couldn't believe I'd made something
that elaborate looking after teaching myself to crochet. I reminded her she'd
taught me to make crochet chains and she said entertaining me with endless chains
was different than actually making something for real.
It was also one thing to know to chain but another to know how to deal
with all the other types of crochet stitches or to be able to figure them out
from a book. This
afghan also appears in Leisure Arts' Our Best Baby Afghans but obviously
there it works up to a mini version. I liked doing this pattern and I had thought
about making is for Nancy's baby but he turned out to be a boy and it was a bit
to girly looking for Jacob. I made him a different pattern instead. Plus I'd worry
abotu babies sticking their arms and legs through the hole-y bits and getting
tangled. Babies are better off with more solid afghans.
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