Afghan - Progress

 

 

 

This is an afghan I'm making for D. It's done in a double herringbone stitch with Olive-Green Life Chunky yarn by StyleCraft  (75% acrylic, 25% wool) on a 6.5mm Susan Bates Aluminum hook. As shown, the afghan is folded over width-wise and is the result of three one hundred gram balls of yarn. The project specifies twelve balls in all, so the project is about a quarter complete.    There is an excellent short tutorial on the double herringbone stitch here.  Due to the stitch and yarn, the resulting afghan has a nice drape which D. likes..  My thanks go out to my crochet teacher, daughter K. who taught me to crochet when she was about ten years old. She was a great instructor;  showing me how to hold the yarn and hook, how to do various stitches, how to work in ends.. She even made sample swatches of the stitches so that I could see what they were supposed to look like. Her efforts spawned many afghans and hundreds of rosary bags over the decades since my first class with her.

 

 

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