It feels like it took forever to finish this afghan, but in reality it was only slightly more than two weeks. Not too bad considering I had lost a few days due to being sick, as well as a pretty busy schedule.
Here it is while I'm working away on it. I'm glad I decided to change the colors. The colors I had before were just too distracting, and it really took away from the beauty of the stitches. The colors I decided to use Red Heart Soft in Light Gray Heather, Lilac, Berry, and Grape. I know the grape is kind of hard to see in some of the pictures. My apologies. All of our furniture is dark, so it made photographing a bit tricksy. The stitch pattern isn't as hard as you might think after you get the hang of it. It's getting the basic concept at the beginning that is the biggest struggle. After I saw how it works out in the first few rounds, it wasn't hard at all. Time (and yarn) consuming, but not hard. I've heard these blankets referred to as "Wool Eaters" before. That's a pretty accurate name.
Here it is all finished! I would make another one of these. Several people who saw me working on this project said they had tried to make this or something similar but just couldn't get the concept from the written pattern, got frustrated and gave up. I'd be willing to make a photo tutorial if there was some interest in it and post here. So if you'd like to see that, drop me a line and I'll make one.
The pattern (which is a free pattern, and can be found
here) called for the edge to be finished with a crab stitch. I started working it that way, and I found it to be very distracting to the eye. In the end I decided a simple border would be best so as not to distract from the rest of the blanket. All in all I'm very happy with how it turned out. I'm hoping my friend also likes it, and that it fetches a good price for his silent auction.
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