Refreshing Throw

I've been working on the Refreshing Throw afghan for a while now.  Not steadily that's for sure. It comes and goes, but overall it went fast when I did work on it. I've finally got to the point of joining all the squares! SO...figured I'd post the progress so far.

I have to admit, this is my favorite square so far. I thought I would get bored of making them, but not yet, and I have plans to use the pattern in another afghan too. Must be love!

I wanted to use the colors that Red Heart shows for the throw, but like yarn companies always do, they've discontinued making the yarn they recommend... how sad. I decided to go with Caron Simply Soft since the colors seem similar and I had them on hand. I just hope it's sturdy enough for the size of the afghan when put together.  It is nice to work with  - except the off white...it's very splitty.

 

I finished the initial squares and then, because I didn't want my joining yarn color to show through to the front, I decided to sc around each square. That way the joining yarn would match and be invisible against all the squares. I had 1 skein left and wasn't sure I would make it around all the squares, but I did with a tiny bit left!

At first I wasn't sure I liked the sc border around the squares, because I really do like the look of the original throw from Red Heart, but the more I see it the more it grows on me. I think I will love it when it all comes together with an outside border.  :) I can't wait until my yarn order gets here from Herrschners so I can finish this.
 

It looks more difficult than it is, and yes, round 3 and round 5 each had a moment of WTF when I read the instructions.

I'm not 100% sure I did round 3 correctly for the very first dc, but I can't see anything wrong when I look at the finished squares...which is good because it's a bit late in the game for ripping anything out. It's as good as it's going to get :)