Crochet!

I received this shipment from Knitpicks back in July. I was so excited! I LOVE getting packages of yarn in the mail. In this one package are several projects. One I am in the middle of is a crochet project. I rarely crochet anymore - it just seems to take SO LONG -but my dear sweet husband really wanted an afghan. His grandmother made him a ripple afghan when he was young, but he really doesn't want to use it anymore because he doesn't want anything to happen to it. So, like so many other things, it has been put safely away as "memory." My task was to try to recreate an afghan just like it. I thought I had found a pattern that was as close as I could get, he picked out the yarn, it came in and I started right away on it. That's when it happened! He decided that the combination of the yarn with the size hook that the pattern called for was just too airy - interpret - way too full of holes. So after taking out what I had started and trying several different hook sizes, we found one that gave the right density that he wanted. Only problem now was it wasn't going to be wide enough or long enough if I held to the pattern specifications. I added width and we decided on a length only to discover that now I was not going to have enough yarn to do his entire afghan in the one color he picked out. I will be doing a striped pattern. We are going to purchase some more yarn - enough to finish this mammoth project - in the color o the gray twist that is in this yarn.

Figuring out the gauge

After a week

Where I am stopping until I get the contrasting yarn for the stripe

Over the next few days, I will post photos of some of the other things that I have made and ideas for some of the other projects I would like to make with this yarn that came in.