Squares

So its been two weeks since I bought the yarn for the afghan and I've gotten four squares done and I'm half way through number five. So far so good! I changed a few colours around because I like how they look.
So far I've finished the gingerbread man, wreath, Rudolph, and Santa. They all came out great! I haven’t started weaving in the ends yet which I know I said from the beginning I would do as I went along but when I catch up on watching Halloween movies I will catch up on weaving them in. At least that’s my plan for now.  

Now I thought I did all the math before I went shopping and got enough of each colour, turns out I should have triple checked. Oops. So I have already gone back to pick up more luckily I still got the same deal. I would recommend getting at least two skeins of most colours because there are a lot of times you are working the same colour at the same time at opposite end of a square.

Note: Vanna’s choice is not an easy yarn to work with from the center of the ball. I don’t know if it’s just me but every time I tried to find the end in the middle I ended up pulling half the ball apart. I haven’t found this to be an issue with other yarns I work with. It is still very nice to work with and still soft and durable for a blanket. Also nice colour options which is always a bonus.

That's all for now! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Place

Where is your happy place? Mine is definitely the yarn aisle! And getting a good deal is great! Using coupons and helping myself save money makes me fell accomplished. Vanna's choice was on sale this week for 3.99 and I got an extra 40% of my total. I paid $65 for 24 balls of yarn. Two is them aren't Vanna's because they discontinued little boy blue. I picked up loops & threads impeccable in clear blue. It was the closest to the original colour I could find. 

Now that Thanksgiving has passed here in Canada it’s full on Halloween at my house. I’ll post pictures of our decoration on Instagram. Find them @chrissyjulrich Have a good week!

Little things

This week has been super busy so I have only been crocheting a little in the evenings. I’ve been using up some more stash yarn and making some small projects. I’ve made a few pairs of boot cuffs, a wine bottle holder, and a couple of warm headbands. No patterns used just making it up as I go along. I didn’t want to start anything with a pattern because the afghan is going to involve a lot of attention. Speaking of which I am going to pick up the yarn tomorrow evening! It has gone on sale this week for I think 20% off, and that’s better than full price. I’m still really excited to start working on it! Any ways here are some pictures of my finished projects from this week.

Next week I will for sure have the yarn to show you. I’m also hoping to have at least one square done. I might put the yarn haul up this week depending on how excited I am. Come back and check it out!

I hope even one that was celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend had a great time.

Crochet Christmas Afghan

So I've been out of the crochet game for a while, but every so often I get an email, text or Facebook message from a family member asking for a crochet project. Which always makes my day! Last week I got a message from my cousin asking for Repeat Crafter Me’s Crochet Christmas afghan. (Check out her blog for all of the instructions. It’s written very well and she is lovely.)  At first I wasn't sure if she was being serious because I knew it was going to be a lot of work and very expensive. I did some research and pricing and let her know, she was still interested! (Which made me so excited I did a little dance.)

I started working on one of the squares with yarn I had in my stash. I first did the Santa.

This is worked in C2C stitch. The Crochet Crowd has a video tutorial here which I used to learn this stitch. I did do it in the DC stitch using a 4.5mm hook.

While waiting for the yarn to go on sale I had enough yarn on hand to do another square. So I started the snowman. This I worked in HDC like Sarah (RepeatCrafterMe) just to see the difference. They are both nice but I think I like the look of the DC stich better. I also comes out larger with it being a different stitch. So Santa is about 17 by 17 inch square and the snowman is 14.5 by 14.5 inch square both with a 4.5mm hook.

I had so much fun working on these. It was great getting back into the crochet game. Keep checking back for progress. I'm hoping to have this done by the end of November. I am really hoping that the yarn (Vanna's Choice) goes on sale next week if not I may have a sneaking "in" at my local yarn store that can get me a deal.