woohoo! zee afghan, she eez finished!

[bunrab]

All right, all together now:
99 granny squares on a wall, 99 granny squares
If one of those grannies should happen to fall...

No, really, it's done. Here's some pics - click on each small pic to see a larger version.


The body under the first pic is S, to demonstrate the size - it came out a little larger than expected, thanks to the wide variance in thicknesses of yarns all labelled "worsted weight" - I had intended something about 45" x 55" and instead we've got something closer to 55" x 66" . In the second pic, S demonstrates that the afghan can indeed be wrapped around a person for a huddle. And in the third, Pickle Underfoot demonstrates his abilities as a lumpy object on the sofa.

This took what, less than 2 weeks? Something like that. It's not a fantastic afghan, but it sure is a finished one! I used up so many scraps of yarn on this - included little leftover wads and balls the size of a ping pong ball that I had brought from Boston to Austin with me in 1981 - some of those yarn companies aren't even in business any more. So that's a certain amount of clutter cleared out, too - an incidental accomplishment. I think there's about 30 different yarns in there total.

Comments

[the-gwenzilliad.livejournal.com]

It's lovely. It's not the squares I hate making in a project like this-- it's the painstaking crocheting together of the thing. I did one similar to this when I was pregnant with G, and it is still around, so you'll probably get a lot of cozy use out of this one. And kudos for clearing out your yarn stash!

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

Way to go! It looks kind of stained-glassy.

*nonchalantly checks out bookcases in the background of picture #2*

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

The books aren't in any kind of order yet - we're still at the stage of "get them all out of boxes first so we have room for the bookcases to go against their proper walls" - we'll get them organized AFTER we can actually get to all the bookcases. Several are still behind walls of boxes; what we're doing is double-decking the books on the shelves we have. I'll take a picture of the BIG bookcase soon - the one that currently is getting all the paperbacks loaded onto it, two books deep on each shelf.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

*waves to the Pickle-lump*

It does have a nicely stained glass look. I like the way the colors sort of bounce around, looking unified without being a set pattern. Are all the squares done with the same stitch-pattern using different swaps of yarn?

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's how it's done. All the granny squares follow the same stitches, changing yarns at the end of each round.