Finished Blanket :)

I am surprised that I never posted about this blanket yet, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised since I never really posted much about anything.

Anyway, this blanket has been in the making for over two years! It is one of those projects that I would pick up, work on a large chunk of it, and then put it away for several months before taking it back out to work on again.

I finally finally finished it a few weeks ago while on a little vacation with my bf.
Here he is sleeping under it when it was almost-finished:


This blanket had an interesting beginning. Once upon a time, it didn't start out as a blanket. I crocheted a skirt in a similar fashion with lots and lots of stripes. Then I crocheted a belt for the skirt. The problem was that the belt was way too big and thick and bulky to actually be worn. So then it decided to become a blanket instead.




The blanket is made entirely of individual rows of acrylic yarn, with a size K hook. Some colors of yarn have only one row in the entire blanket, other colors are repeated over and over again.

Originally I was supposed to use up some of my acrylic-yarn stash, but I'm fairly sure that after buying a bunch more yarn for this blanket I now have more yarn than I started with. Oh darn, guess I will have to make more things.

Hello Again

Wow, it has been quite a long while since I posted here. That is a little sad, actually. The absence doesn't mean I haven't been playing with yarn, though! I may make a few separate posts about things to break it up a little. (although I think there are only two main projects that I really want to post.

Recently I have been feeling very much re-inspired to work on my projects, and to start new things, but unfortunately this coincides with the start of my classes for the semester, and classes and homework must take precedence.

First up: Here is a little giraffe I crocheted as a birthday present for my bf Chris. His birthday is in May, so this is an old project, but definitely one that should have been posted here!

He looked pretty funny with only one horn on his head, so I took a picture:



I also took some pictures of the finished giraffe of course:




His little mohawk was my favorite part to make:



I found the pattern for him via Ravelry. It is here: http://www.coatsandclark.com/Crafts/Crochet/Projects/BabyChild/WR1729+Little+Crochet+Giraffe.htm I made mine with Lion Brand Vanna's Choice yarns.