Rusty Nail Afghan

Rusty Nail as it was designed some time back accompanied me to South Carolina on a girls trip recently.  I was able to work on it in the car coming and going.

Aside from the different light and the colors looking a bit more reddish in the 2nd picture, here it is as a work in progress.  As you can see the squares are very different in size and style, some are rectangles,  some squares, some knitted, and some crocheted.  Due to the huge difference in size I've used almost 3 skeins of yarns in the beginning edging and joining.  After returning home and searching for additional yarn (that I thought I had that matched)...

Here's the next design stage

I've moved what was to be the 2nd row down to the make the 4th  row, and then re-arranged a few other squares to keep things as balanced as something this different can be.  Looking at this picture I see I need to move the granny square in the middle of the 3rd row so I don't have 3 of those in a row diagonally.  Will probably switch it out with the bigger orange square that's currently 2nd  in that same row.   Separating the 2 completed rows with the idea that when I edge and join the others with a slightly different shade it will be less noticeable and look more like a blending of all these shades of orange, peach, tangerine, and rust.

Fingers crossed this plan works as well as I think it will.


2015 DONATIONS:
Hats: 353
Scarves & Infinity Scarves: 167
Mittens/Gloves/Wrist Warmers: 111
Slippers: 91
Rain Poncho's:  105
Cotton Washcloths: 364
Afghans: 22
Socks: 201
Cowls/Hoody Combo's/ 18
Shawls 2
Misc: items like personal care and things don't fit into above categories aren't counted

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.

Pastel Garden Afghan in the Works Needs a New Name

Here's Pastel Garden in stage One, it's original design.  At some point the upper right square with the Teddy Bear was removed to a more appropriate afghan design and a celery color green square was added to replace it.

Here's Pastel Garden after our friend Tristi started edging some of the squares.  With the dark green, it no longer looks like pastel garden, so believe we're  in need of renaming it.  Tristi has passed this ghan in the works back  to me  for completion.  Anyone have any ideas for a new name?  We'll have time to maul it over, as I have 3 other ghans currently in the works, so unsure when I'll get back to this one.

Green Garden is all I've come up with so far.  Secret Garden?  The book....just popped into my head.

Speak up folks.

2015 DONATIONS:
Hats: 353
Scarves & Infinity Scarves: 167
Mittens/Gloves/Wrist Warmers: 111
Slippers: 91
Rain Poncho's:  105
Cotton Washcloths: 364
Afghans: 22
Socks: 201
Cowls/Hoody Combo's/ 18
Shawls 2
Misc: items like personal care and things don't fit into above categories aren't counted

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.

Hats for Kids at West Broad Elementary School

Look at these awesome and adorable hats knitted by our good friend, Sandra R down in Florida.  She's made 30 hats.  Some are small, some are mediums,  some are larges, and others extra large....KIDS!  So many wonderful colors for both the girls and the boys, several styles as well.  These were passed along for our friend, Elizabath Parson's West Broad Street Challenge.  So far, Bridge and Beyond has donated 75 hats towards her goal of 600.

Though the date of this post is the 7th and her deadline is the 2nd, it's because I schedule posts remember and have been scheduling every other day of late.

These hats are warm, soft and truly perfect in everyway!  Many thanks Sandra, you must knit in your sleep.

2015 DONATIONS:
Hats: 323+30=353
Scarves & Infinity Scarves: 167
Mittens/Gloves/Wrist Warmers: 111
Slippers: 91
Rain Poncho's:  105
Cotton Washcloths: 364
Afghans: 22
Socks: 201
Cowls/Hoody Combo's/ 18
Shawls 2
Misc: items like personal care and things don't fit into above categories aren't counted

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.