Crocheting Update

As I am sitting here reading through my blogs from last summer, I ran across the entry where I told you all I was starting my first afghan project. This is an extremely overdue update, but I have since FINISHED that afghan! I finished my Mile a Minute afghan on New Year's Day. For me, it was more like a Mile a Month, but I digress. Making that afghan has corrupted me for the better, because now all I want to do is crochet afghans. I am working on 2 other afghans currently, a shell afghan that is a similar pattern to an afghan my Grandma Inez made me before she passed away, and the other is a Granny Square afghan that I hope will fit a queen sized bed when I am done. My goal for the summer is to finish my Granny Square afghan. The other one is worked as one piece and it gets really hot and humid in Iowa in the summer, so I will not work on that as much. Granny squares also take about 20 minutes to make a piece, so I can get a lot more of them done when I sit down to watch an hour long TV program or a movie. So, without further ado, my very first afghan!

Here is the picture my mom posted of me after I finished my afghan. No doubt she was pretty proud that I finally figured out to make something besides Hipster hats and scarves.

This is my afghan all laid out. The panels were done in four  steps: the inside shells, the first green border, a white border, and a final green border. After completing that with all nine panels, I whip-stitched them together

This is the book my afghan pattern came from (I never post photos of my projects without a link to the pattern it came from.) Mom bought this book at Walmart a few years back, and I have taken it hostage from her. There are several other patterns in this book I would like to try, but some of them are still a little difficult for someone who has only been crocheting about a year and a half. I also need to finish my other two before I embark on another one!

I plan on doing lots of crocheting and other crafting projects this summer, so stay tuned to see what I am making. I also plan on baking a lot of the recipes that are sitting on my Pinterest boards, so I will blog about those as well (the good ones AND  the bad ones.) 

Stay classy readers!