The Feel of Autumn

The mornings and evenings are chillier; the leaves are starting to change colors, a few are even falling; and Me? Well, Autumn weather moves me to start thinking about creating afghans; that way the blanket gets longer (and warmer) as it gets colder. Here are a couple I've made for myself.

Lighthouse - ordered online as a kit

9 Patch Scrappy

This was done in an effort to use up all the yarn scraps I've collected. This was fun, although on the short side. It doesn't quite cover from toes to shoulders. I do love it for it's using up odds and ends of yarn. I don't like having left over scraps of anything after a project but that's impossible to avoid. So these kind of projects really make me happy.

Side track: I remember a baby afghan I made this way. It had a picture of Piglet with a white background (same type as my lighthouse above). I was determined to only use the yarn I already had. I did pretty good until the last ten inches or so when I ran out of white yarn. All I had left was some off-white. My sister and mother who had been watching the progress of this blanket couldn't stand to see me use the off-white, so they ran and bought me a skein of white. ;) I laugh because there were threats used to get past my stupid stubborn streak. It was a good thing because the blanket looks so more complete with the same color background.

Anyway, this year hasn't been any different. I was itching to pull out my yarn stash with the first wet cold day. I had to restrain myself for two weeks cause of three sewing projects that were already spread out over the family room. (You can't play with the yarn until you've cleaned up this fabric mess ;) The sewing got done over the weekend; everything got put away yesterday morning; and last night I pulled out my boxes of yarn "orphans".

I have had an afghan pattern in mind for a month or so but with all the yarn spread out I couldn't decide what to do without also looking through all my crochet patterns.

This is where it started getting dicy. With the yarn spread out all over the floor, according to color. I found half a dozen projects that would be so much fun; baby stuff, Christmas decorations, as well as afghans. So......

My Chosen Pattern

The original afghan pattern I had already chosen.

It's the "Crochet Folk Quilt Throw" from the Redheart website. It has 6 different colors which I thought would be a perfect use of my "orphan" yarn.

Oh, yes! it's going to be a "make something with what you already have" project.

The Chosen ColorsI didn't have enough of one color to meet the pattern requirements but I did have enough color groups. So I have a couple of greens, purples, a white & tan, and 3 or 4 shades of pink. Total amount of yarn equals total needed for afghan.

Here's a Sneak Peak

Oh, ... I like it, I like it!

Here's to you Autumn!