September Month-n-Review

Pictures are a brilliant thing, never have I enjoyed taking pictures as much as I do now. Between digital cameras, my children and our four legged furry buddies there is just so much life to capture. So I thought it would be neat to create a hodgepodge of photos at the end of the month that just about sum up the previous month.



The first picture is pretty much self explanatory, it’s scary, amazing and immense amount of pride all wrapped up in that one photo. Tomorrow actually will be her first day out on the real road, she’s been practicing in our subdivision mostly.

The second picture is from our crochet group meeting, Richard (Margarita’s boy bits) is making Emma a doggie toy. I do believe that’s his first attempt at a stuffed toy type project. I’m sure by the next meeting it might even have its second eye :)

The third & final picture is of my youngest daughter doing what she does best with her puppy Gwen, snuggle time!!

Have a great weekend,
~dani

ps...here's my progress thus far on joining the f'ugly blanket

will not be defeated

When I first started this blanket I knew I was taking a risk using stash yarn, not only because it limited my color choices but what happens if I run out of yarn? When my daughters settled on their color choices it was even more apparent that I better have enough yarn, none of the skeins had wrappers -- there is a lesson there I'm sure.

So moving forward I started crocheting, all was well until I came to this final square of the yellow series...



My original layout looked a little something like this.




I thought the effect was pretty neat, the diagonal was going to look great when I joined it in black. Jess thought it would resemble stained glass, I would have to agree.

This weekend we tackled re-arranging the layout. I only had 4 yellow blocks now. It was Hannah, our resident artist who suggested that we put the yellow blocks in the corners since we only had 4 of them & that a square has 4 corners. Wow of course that makes perfect sense now.

So after setting the corners to yellow, Jess said we could still do the diagonal in the middle and this is what she came up with. I think the girls make a great team.



I only have 3 squares left to make and then I'll be trying a new to me method of joining called Flat Braid. I hope to have it done this week and then I'll return to another afghan I seemed to have abandoned several months ago ;)

~dani

F'ulgy Sampler update

I started this afghan with a group on Ravelry a couple weeks ago. Here's my lastest progress pic, I've actually completed a few more of the squares than shown but I'm only updating the pics as I have another row complete.











I wasn't sure who was going to end up with this blanket but Hannah has shown a real interest in it so it may very well end up with her. I'm sure it will find a home.

~dani