"Yarn Blanket"

I've been working on this afghan for a long time. I think I started buying the yarn last fall... and just worked on it between projects or TV time through to about a week ago. It took a long time to finish, but it also spent a fair amount of time sitting in the project bucket while something else took center stage (for example, I made another granny square afghan for my sister for Christmas, and another for another friend at the same time, both of which remain unchronicled in blog form, and likely never will be).

The yarn is brown (bought in the big pound skeins, I needed a lot!), with reddish accent stripes. Stripes are uniform size, but the distance between them is however I was feeling that day. Also, this afghan is enormous. More than long enough to cover all of my boyfriend, who is roughly 6' tall (I didn't ask for specs, but he's taller than me).

This afghan needs a home. I already have enough blankets, and don't need another- if you or someone you know would like it, let me know! If you know a good charity in the Chicagoland area that would take it, let me know!

And then 11 months happened...

Maybe you've forgotten I have a blog. I mostly did too. I'd make projects and think, "oh I should post this to the blog..." < /thoughtprocess >. It didn't ever happen. And then to have to follow up the desk project! That thing took so long. That thing is what my computer is sitting on as I type this post up.

Regardless, blog is back, here is a blanket. I've been crocheting for years, and I'm a wicked packrat, who will not throw away scraps! Neither will my mom- there are bits of the yarn from my older brother's baby blanket in there. And bits from baby blankets made for coworkers, and bits from afghans I made for friends & family, bits of yarn from small skeins that were given to me solo, and bits from skeins I bought for small projects that never left the yarn bucket. So it's a scrap-square-afghan, and it now resides in the apartment of my friend and neighbor, as pictured. (:

Used white to border each square, to hold the design together. May or may not be visible in the picture, but I did end up using a number of different whites. Used a cream color to single crochet around the edge and keep the edges from being too delicate.