Granny Stuff

10.17.10

Okay, I have never done a granny anything- square, stripe, ripple or anything else.  So I decided to attempt a really easy stripe but make it a solid for my friend Ellen's mom as a thank you for taking one "cute on a little skinny body" dress:

and making it into a lovely skirt with the perfect stretchy elastic wasteband for a "normal" sized gal (complete with matching ruffly-bra top, which coming from a preacher's wife was about the biggest laugh I had had in a long time- hmmm... perhaps that could be an interesting seperate post)

Anway, as a gift to her, I began working on this solid colored, granny stripe.

Mrs. Warren's Afghan
Pattern: Granny Stripe, Attic24
Yarn:  Lion Brand Yarn, Vanna's Choice, 100% acrylic
Color:  148 burgandy
Hook:  size K
Started:  10.08.10
Status: in progress

10.17.10

apricot corner granny, colorways
LBY, Vanna's Choice, 100% acrylic

10.17.10

apricot corner granny, colorways
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Swish worsted wool, 100% superwash merino

11.26.10-11.28.10

The latest granny.  The Chocolate Mint Mocha scarf

Pattern:  Featherweight Granny Scarf

Hook: H

Yarn:

1) With Love from the Kids, Elaine M. Sipes, Livermore, Colorado

100% llama

Color:  "Kelly/Indy" brown

Worsted Wt., $12

2) With Love from the Kids, Elaine M. Sipes, Livermore, Colorado

90% llama "the white guy"

10% kid mohair

Color: beige

Worsted Wt., $12

3) Red Heart, Super Saver

100% Acrylic

Color: frosty green fleck

11.29.10-

Here it is, I've finally started my Lucy-inspired (attic24) granny blankie.  The Popscicle Blankie.  I couldn't come up with a better name than that.  The colors just make you smile and I think will be a good blankie to curl up in when we get sick or on one of those "blah" days.  It can't help but make you feel better...

The Popsicle Blankie
Pattern: Grannys-a-Square-Afghan

Hook: I

Terrible as it may be, there was no way I was going to pay the nearly $350 on Noro yarn to make the suggested blanket.  I went to check Noro out at my local yarn store (LYS) to find a sample.  It was incredibly dyed yarn, but it was about the scratchy-est yarn I ever felt.  Why on earth would anyone ever make a blankie out of something so hideous?!? 

So, instead, I'm going the frugal route.  Red Heart Yarn provides a vast array of color choices at an economical price.  I think I paid $2.88 per skein at our local Walmart.  When I get to Santa Fe on Wednesday, I plan on picking up a couple more colors at Michaels to round out the popsicle rainbow of colors.  So far, I have:

:: lavender

:: light blue

:: delft blue

:: carrot

:: Aruba sea

:: gold

:: cherry red

:: orchid

:: turqua

:: dark orchid

:: Aran (off white)

:: light raspberry

11.30.10

Hooked until 1am when J came home from the office.  As I've posted on Ravelry, I definitely need to rethink that gold and get to the Michaels in Santa Fe for some light/dark green/teal and pale orange and pink. 

Here's the progress:

Of course, there are lots of ends to weave in and blocking to be done on each square, but I'm happy about it so far.  The gold does look a little sickly on that large square in the upper right.  I may have to frog that and try something else. 

12.03.10

The trip to Santa Fe was a moderate success.  Couldn't find the greens I wanted, nor a light orange or pink that wasn't florescent.

Here's the final selection of yarns for the blankie:

So, the inventory includes:

Red Heart Super Saver

:: lavender

:: light blue

:: delft blue

:: carrot

:: Aruba sea

:: gold

:: cherry red

:: orchid

:: turqua

:: dark orchid

:: Aran (off white)

:: light raspberry

:: soft navy

:: burgandy

:: pale yellow

:: light sage

:: honeydew

:: hunter green

Loops and Threads, Impeccable

:: grape

:: soft rose

The hooking is coming along, although I've been on the receiving end of some sighs from my husband.  I think he'd understand if I could put it into crafts he could relate to, like wood working and leather craft.  It comes and goes, this funny obsession, but really, it's too much fun for it to be bad, right?!?  I won't tell him that last night I dreamt of such amazing color combinations...

Time to get to weaving in those ends...before it gets away from me.

See ya round the corner....

XOXO