My Blanket

I've always enjoyed crocheting.  I remember spending the night at Grandmomi's house, watching old black and white movies or "The Christmas Story, drinking coke floats and learning to crochet.  I don't remember how old I was when I learned to crochet a chain, but I do remember learning to put it all together in late high school.  

I've made a few scarves, baby blankets, afghans, and baby booties but have not really gotten into the detailed difficult work.  I enjoy making up my own patterns.  Pretty much as long as you have the same number of loops as the row before you're good when making blankets and scarves.    I loved coming up with new stitches to make texture and patterns in whatever I was making.  

Well, over the years I've accumulated many balls of yarn that I kept in a huge basket.  When I moved into the new house I decided that I didn't want that basket laying around anymore so I was going to take all of the extra yarn and make a crazy, mismatched, large, afghan.  When I started the project I couldn't decide on a "pattern" that I wanted to use or one that I like more than others. So I decided to go back to my younger years when Grandmomi taught me how to crochet and use the simple single stitch she taught me.  

AND.... I finished my blanket today!  It is as long and as big as my queen size bed!  I thought I'd share some pictures of my accomplishment.  

There are so many memories in the blanket and I'd like to share some of those with you....

The bottom yarn (before the boarder) is an antique yarn that I found in an old school shed when I was working in California.  I found two skeins, this red/multi-colored one and the purple and brown on on the other end. 

The grey yarn was used in scarf where I realized I could make up my own "patterns".

Under the grey there is a brown chenille yarn that I used to make my mom a scarf for christmas.  

And under the brown chenille there is a purple, green, cream and brown yard that I used to make my first afghan ever!

The black right above the red is left over from the slippers I made for my principal and assistant principal last Christmas.

The large pink in the middle is left over from some baby booties I made for a friend in North Carolina.

The fuzzy pink matched with the fuzzy black was from a scarf that I started for my cousin Rachael Clark and the purple right below it is from the scarf I made for her sister Hannah. :)  The black and white under the blue and green yard was also used for rachaels scarf (I'm not sure I ever finished it!)

I could go on and on about all of the yarns that are in this afghan.  They all have a story.  The afghan as a whole has a story as well, I started this crocheted most of this during the wedding planning and within the first couple months of our marriage.  I will think of Grandmomi b/c without her teaching me the "simple" single stitch I couldn't have done this!  And of course I will think about all the people I bought the different yarn for in the first place!