You might remember seeing this afghan while it was in the works, Cardiac Collage. The color is a bit funky here, you know how bad light can be a problem when taking photo's. We have so much gray drabness here in Ohio, it's often a problem if I don't get the photo done during the day, or there's no sunshine. Cardiac Collage, so named because I started it while sitting in the ER when my Dear Hubby was having a Cardiac Event. I purposely made each square different, with different amounts of colors, and some squares don't have representations of each color. From a design perspective.........I wanted it to be without pattern, much as a cardiac event is.........additionally, I didn't have the same amount of each color and was trying to use up some stash. This photo was taken prior to it being laundered and blocked so when that was accomplished (yesterday) it measured about 54 inches square. The squares are knit, sorta like a log cabin pattern with picking up stitches each time you changed colors. I enjoy doing that, but am not a fan of how many ends there are to work in. Soooooooo, after getting all the squares done,
I switched to working on a simple striped afghan. These colors are very soothing, very peaceful, and there is indeed a pattern to this design. I named this one Earth and Sky for the green grass, brown earth, and blue skies. This photo was also taken before it was laundered and blocked (it's drying as we speak and now measures about 60 x 65).
One Earth and Sky was done and waiting to be laundered (had to wait til after Christmas so I had floor space to block it), I returned to the squares for Cardiac Collage and edged them all by crocheting in the darker blue, then crocheted them together, and finally crocheted a couple of rows all around as the border.
We're close to our goal for afghans, and I'm not yet closing the books on 2018.
**The counts on our progress bars are current.
All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.
Jeweled Lines is done...except I need to finish tucking in the ends, launder and block. I've been way laid doing that...
Some person care items I collected during out recent trip to Park City, Utah. I always collect jazz when we travel.
This is the afghan I'm currently working on. The bottom block has the blue from the recent donation of yarn from Gail B (scroll back to previous post if you missed it). This ghan will have lots of different colors, will not have a pattern to it, won't have equal amounts of color in each block, or even the same colors in each block. This afghan is called Cardiac Collage. I've been blogging about it on my person blog, Sandy's Space. It's titled Cardiac Collage as I grabbed 2 skeins of yarn or parts there off when hubby and I were off to the ER recently. He had a cardiac event. I spent time there in the ER and subsequent day in his hospital room just knitting, with really no great plan in place. The blog upper right with dark purple as a big part of the block, and 2 stripes of orange was the start and is the yarn I had with me at the time. Cardiac events are
helter skelter...so, the afghan will be too.
One block currently doesn't any yellow in it, one doesn't have any turqoise, 3 don't have orange but have peach, 3 with orange have o peach, 2 don't have lavendar, and currently only one has tan and blue. Plan to add blue and tan to a couple , but don't want it to always been close to the edge...so will start 3 more blocks where I put those perhaps more in the middle...and red only in 3 ..will add some red in the new blocks too. Using up odds and ends in part
Was nice to have something portable to tote during the hospital stay.
**The counts on our progress bars are current.
All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.
Where are You and Your Yarn From?
I'm trying to identify where everyone is from, partially for fun. Take a look at the map. Also, believe it will aid me in cases where we have several people with the same name. Please look at the lists of bloggers and non bloggers and see if I have the state you hail from. If not, please leave a comment and let me know.
Additionally, we've had help from Scotland, England, Germany Puerto Rico, Canada, and France! They don't appear on the map, but their help is still greatly appreciated.
