How very refreshing

I finished the Refreshing throw this weekend!

Yay! My January Afghan is done!

Tied in the last ends of the border on Sunday night and then spent the rest of the evening relaxing. It was odd having a few hours in the evening without a crochet hook in my hand.

The afghan is so soft and snuggly feeling and it feels heavy. It seems likes it's heavier than what the un-crocheted skeins would weigh. It can't technically, but it does feel like that. I think it's as large as I would want to go using Simply Soft.

The finished size is 49" X 55". Not quite the size of a bed, but plenty big enough for curling up on a sofa.

I made the afghan 6 squares by 7, so 42 squares total.  Each 6 ounce skien makes 8 squares, so I made  2 extra of the off-white and used the extra on the skien for going around each square in a single crochet border, that way when I joined them together with the off white it would not show through between the different colours.

After joining, I did a row of off-white single crochet around, 3 rows of hdc, 1 row sc off-white, then off-white - Rnd 2 of border as written in RH pattern.

I'm quite happy and proud of it. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, but for now I'm happy enough knowing it's complete.

About this Afghan

• 24.5 hrs to complete squares
• 10 hours to join / border

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• 35 hrs total

Caron Simply Soft Yarn

• 2 sage
• 1 orchid
• 1 Plum Wine
• 1 Robin's Egg
• 2 Off-White

Approximately 6.5 skeins to complete.
Approximately 38 oz

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 :)