An Afghan Update

I posted quite a while back that I wanted to try and make an afghan for each of my immediate family members this year, as their Christmas present - the total was eight afghans.

Well, like my usual plans, I ran into issues.  Mostly it was the trouble with my arm, which is much better than it was but still is giving me some grief.

I tried to keep crocheting a little bit at a time, but I finally had to just give it up, cold turkey, for a while.  I started back up on September the first and I tackled the granny-square blocks for my baby nephew first.  I had them done, they just needed to be sewed together and a border put around them.

Did the sewing together:



And finished it with the border somewhere around the middle of September.  So, I finished one out of eight, lol!



What I am going to try to do is finish the afghans that I have started, which will make one per couple - two siblings and their spouses, and Mom & Dad.  Then one for each of my nephews, so five afghans.  One down, four to go!

This one is for my sister in law to begin with, now my brother & her's.  It took seven strips, and I had four done.  Now I have all seven done and I am crocheting them together.  They are not whipstitched like the granny blocks - they have a very interesting joining technique.  I have two together and am working on the next two.  The first two took me about an hour, so I'm hoping the rest go more quickly!  Then two rows of single crochets all the way around, and it's done.




And the one that was for my other sibling Tavi is over halfway done now.  It is even further than this pic, which I took maybe two days ago?  Four of seven pattern repeats are done now:




And I'm also working on my mother's choice of afghan; it is currently being taken everywhere with me because it's only about a foot wide and five or so feet long - it looks like a big scarf.  I will show a picture of it soon!

That leaves my other nephew's afghan, and I couldn't find the shade of grey yarn that I needed.  I found pale grey, dark grey, medium grey, but no medium-light grey.  So, there came a box from Herschner's:



And lovely yarn was in it!  Perfect shade of grey - there are five 8oz skiens in there.  The red yarn is for the afghan my Dad wanted because I am eternally hopeful that time will stop for about three months and let me actually finish all eight!  But I'm not holding my breath!



The floss in there is for my eternally-continuing kitting up of HAED patterns, of which I thought I would show you more from the layaway:

Iris by Law



This is one that someone already stitched - looks fabulous!



And I knocked another Hannah Lynn of the list - this one is Felicia:



There was no stitched version or mock-up of her, but Hannah Lynn's always look really good.

Back with more soon!  I have some actual, oh my goodness, stitching to show :D