One down...., ? to go

Yesterday I finished the four-color one-piece square throw. I put it out on my sun porch today.


Today I also did some work on the CGOA notebook. I got out some velcro and started closing the sheet protector pages with it. I think it is going to work out OK. The adhesive is supposed to be set in 24 hours. I'm thinking I may not redo as many of the swatches after all.

Tuesday 62210

So far this morning, I worked 45 minutes on the Simply Soft afghan. Next, I need to put my CGOA swatches in the notebook, to get them off the floor of my living room. I've been thinking I would redo some of them, but I think I'd better put them away in the notebook and then analyze them for do-overs.

Today's Work

I started my day by spending two hours on doing the finishing touches on some granny squares I had stashed.

I working these with a white center and a white sc border. There are four rows total. I'm trying to use up the smallest balls in my stash. I'm hoping to donate it to Touching Little Lives or my church charity collection.

On my schedule today is building my portfolio notebook to submit to Crochet Guild of America. Hopefully I'll earn the Masters Certificate they offer. I have worked all the 48 swatches and now have to review them and put them in the notebook. I started out working the swatches consistently in white worsted weight yarn. Then, I ran into a swatch for which the directions specified using two colors! I used bright yellow and yellow orange. Then my white swatches started looking pretty drab, so I started using colors. I also experimented with white thread for some swatches and later switched to colored thread. I may be redoing some of the white swatches as time permits. I have until August 5 to submit my portfolio.

Another work in progress is a taupe, cream, sage and violet throw for my screened in porch. It is all done but the final rounds of the violet. I bought Simply Soft yarn for it and it has such a nice soft feel.