Happenings from the Bush homestead

Inquiring minds wanted to know...

 To the left, is the afghan I am crocheting for my little sister for her graduation gift.  She graduated in May.  It's now umm....October.  Atleast I am farther on it now than I was in May!  She is very anxious and excited about having this afghan, so since she has now moved to her own apartment in a different city (not toooo far away from us), I have been working on it everynight.  It sure does take a long time to crochet something that should be about as tall as I am. 

Here is a close up just to show the colors.  The multi colored lines are dark green, brown, burnt orange, dark yellow and cream.  Then there are the dark brown and cream rows in there as well.  I decided to do more of the multi colored rows because I had a ton of that color yarn.  Then I found the dark brown and bought a good bit of it.  The cream however, is not her favorite color, but I couldn't find any other color that matched good enough for my liking.  And, it cost more than the rest.  So it's only in there a few times to divde the multi/brown/multi rows pattern. 

Next are the other projects I've been knitting, when I should have been getting Connie's afghan done.  But shhh....just don't tell her.  These are just a few.  I've given some away as gifts already for birthdays and a wedding.  I need to knit much much faster than I do if I'm going to be done before Christmas!  Yikes!  I won't tell you how many days are left until Christmas though. 

The bottom two are the slip stich dishcloths knit on size 7 needles.  Then the other 4 1/2 are the Granny's Favorite Dishcloth from the same website, knit on size 8 needles.  I do have another slip stitch dishcloth on size 7 needles in Peaches and Cream's Faded Glory cotton and another Granny's Favorite Dishcloth on size 8 needles that is about 1/2 done in my purse in Peaches and Cream's Fiesta.  I think it's Fiesta anyhow.  I can't quite remember.  It's been out there for a couple of weeks waiting until we go somewhere again. 

And last but not least, are the put holders I have crocheted.  For myself actually!  So now I've knit a dishcloth with a whole in it for myself, a yellow dischloth with a flower in the middle and these two potholders.  After Christmas I will knit some more dishcloths for my kitchen.  I promise! 

The pot holders are two different lengths.  Partly becasue they are crocheted on two different size hooks.  But also because I wanted to try out a couple of different lengths to see which I prefered myself.  The white and green/yellow potholder is two toned because I didn't have much of the green/yellow left.  Not enough for a solid potholder.  So I threw the white in there for extra.  The cream I tried just didn't look good.  So white it was.  Funny things is, I don't know which of the lengths I really like better.  I think probably the short one, but the longer one came in handy today for a larger pan.  So who knows?! 

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6:02 PM, Monday 9 October 2006 .. Posted by mc2rwe

I love your dishcloths. Crocheted one's are the only ones I use as well as my daughters. I am making up a slew of them for Christmas this year and hopefully my daughter in law will like them as well. Beautiful work.

Kathy

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7:50 PM, Monday 9 October 2006 .. Posted by Marcia

Oooooo.... Ahhhhh...

They are all so nice! I really, really admire the afghan and pot holders because I seriously doubt my ability to make such things. I like the pattern of the afghan a lot!