Well, as soon as the American Flag project was completed and delivered my fingers started itching for something to do.  It isn’t like I don’t have tons and tons of unfinished projects I could have picked up.  Instead I started knitting some dish clothes.  Nothing fancy, just run of the mill stuff.

I finished one dish cloth during a weekend road trip.  The best part of the trip was running into a street fair and some shops in a little town in southern Ohio.  I walked into a dollar store and found yarn.  Not just any yarn, mind you, but specialty yarns that run $3 to $6 a skein.  They were selling them for a dollar, so I did what any crafter would do.  I bought all they had!!!  What else could I have done?  Even though they aren’t exactly the colors I’m fond of, I figure I can turn them into some kind of Christmas gift.  Maybe one day I will get brave and take a picture of my yarn stash.  Of course it would probably necessitate the purchase of a very very very wide angle lens for the camera.

Tell us about your projects or “stash.”  I can’t be the only person who has enough available yarn to open a yarn shop.

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Pheeeeewwwwww!!!!!  The American Flag afghan is done, delivered, and given away to a lucky recipient.  It took me a week to recover and I didn’t realize how heavy the silly thing was getting until I started binding it off.  It felt like my arms were floating as the crazy thing came off the needles.  I can definitely say that near the end I was sure wishing we had less than 50 states.  Even the stars started to get annoying, but that does tend to happen when you work on a deadline.  When I was sewing on star number 2o something, my husband said I should have made a rebel flag and I would be done already.  LOL!  Of course he can joke when he isn’t the one buried in stars.  For anyone who would like to see the finished project, I’m posting a pic.  Let me know what you think of it and tell us about your current projects.

Welcome, welcome, welcome! What is everyone working on? My latest project is an American Flag afghan in both knit and crochet. The afghan was commissioned by my Mother-In-Law for donation to the senior citizen center as a door prize for a Memorial Day celebration honoring veterens. Of course, when I started looking through my tons and tons of patterns, I couldn’t find one I liked. This meant I had to design my own, hence the combination knit/crochet.

It is actually coming along well, although it has to be done by the 13th of May and I still have 48 rows and 50 stars to go. It is getting a little difficult to work on though because I decided to knit it lengthwise. This means I am trying to stuff 72″ of afghan on 29″ circular needles. Depending on how well it turns out, I may post my pattern and pics of the afghan when I get it done.

The silly part of the whole thing was that what my Mother-In-Law asked for was a red white and blue ripple afghan. I couldn’t bring myself to go simple and now I am paying the price wrestling this thing around the circular needles. Why is it we crafters can’t seem to take the easy way out?

Let us know what you are working on. We’d love to hear about your crafting dilemmas.

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