Tuesday, August 19, 2008

We have found the limits of my Tonylove!

Here's the squares I made over the weekend while outlet shopping in Lancaster. Well all except the 2 white ones. I made those at lunchtime at work. After 4 or 5 tries, I found a layout I liked for the 'ghan. I probably should've had a plan instead of just making red white and blue squares willy nilly. I took pictures of all the possiblilities. This layout is the one I like the best, so unless I get really confused by seaming the 'ghan should look like this. After it's all seamed together, I'm going to do a border of a blue stripe, white stripe, red stripe. The stripes will be ( I think, have to see how it starts looking) one double crochet wide on the sides, and 2 or three on the top and bottom. That way it will end up a rectangle. Ok, so going into this project i knew i really don't like seaming. I'm not very good at seaming (probably why I don't like it) but as your driver gets more points if you seam the afghan, and not that many people have terminal "Tonylove" (that term coined by my friend Min who is obviously insane as she doesn't love Tony AND she volunteered to seam all the squares people send her together) I read today that some Kasey Kahne fan is sending in 200 squares!!! well at least Jeffie won't wn. Back to topic. Even though Tony could use the extra points... seamiing afghan squares is absolute HELL! So I will seam this one as it will look weird w/o the border. But I think the homespun squares i made will be popped in the mail to Min and maybe she can find other squares to put them with. I am almost halfway on the ripple 'ghan. I think since Tony won't be in orange next season it has sucked some of the fire out of that one, but I am determined to finish it. i am also looking around my stash and am thinking about making a blanket similar to the one I made my daughter for Christmas 2 years ago. ( will have to take a new pic. Every year I copy my pic's onto a cd and then delete them off the computer. But I need my husband to get them back on the computer, so it will be quicker to take a new pic) Anyhow. That was made with 4 strands of yarn held together on really big needles so was quick. Yes a quickie for Tony! hee hee hee. ( I tell my husband if Tony ever rings the doorbell I'm outta here. he gets even by rooting for chrissie Wallace and the girl that drives the Supercut's car in ARCA. I think he also roots for Angelle in NHRA bikes. i think I have a better shot with Tony)

7 comments:

  1. Your afghan looks good. Good luck with the seaming! I hate doing seaming too. I find it easier when I put a single crochet edge around each square, so that my seaming doesn't pull the square funny.

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  2. Love the squares! Looks like it will come out great! Thanks for stopping by my blog and if you want the pattern for the corkscrew scarf, let me know!

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  3. Love that afghan. Reminds me of my mom--she always wanted to learn the basic granny square technique, but never could,despite my best efforts to teach her. Instead, she crocheted ripple afghans like crazy.

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  4. Oh my goodness! How patriotic looking! I love it!

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  5. Oh my goodness! How patriotic looking! I love it!

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  6. Beautiful afghan! You are a wonderful crocheter. Keep it up! :) (gyi on Ravelry)

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