Harry Potter Scarf/Afghan

Well, I finally got started on my brother's Harry Potter afghan. I decided to do wide scarves in each of the house colors like the ones in the Sorcerer's Stone movie. So far I've got the one for Hufflepuff done and I'm working on the one for Ravenclaw. I still need to get the yarn for Griffondor and Slytherin. I don't know how I'm going to join them yet. I'm thinking about doing an edging around each scarf to use to join them together. I'll have to ask my friends at Crochet Partners . I know they'll have a ton of ideas. My CP friends were the ones who inspired me to do this afghan in the first place :)

My mom's sweater is now waiting for the sleeves. I have now completed the back panel and both front panels and gotten them joined. It looks great so far. I'm trying to decide whether to do the collar and button band in the solid green or the ombre green. I've been working exclusively on the HP afghan this week, but next week I'll be spending every minute I can on getting my mom's sweater completely finished. And of course, I'll take pictures to post before I wrap it :)

The Star Wars afghan for my son is nearing completion. I have 10 squares left plus the logo panel. WooHoo!!!!!!!! My son has been so patient and nice about it, bless his heart. I'll be glad to get it done.

After the new year, I'll be starting on a baby afghan for my second cousin, whose wife is expecting their first baby. As of right now, I've decided on A granny square pattern on a Red Heart SuperSaver label. It's pretty, it's simple and it's made of the SuperSaver yarn so I know it will be durable. I even think I'll stick to the colors the pattern calls for. I'm definately going to take a break after that. I'm going to take a break from marathon crochet sessions and go back over my wish list of stuff I want to make for other family members and start on those things in March :)

New Death Star

Well, I have been requested to make another Death Star. Dh thought it was so neat that he wants to send one to a friend of his for Christmas. I'm glad that I figured out how to make that thing. It's such a fast project, even for me. The only thing is that I'll have to look at pictures of the last one to figure out where to put the eye. I think I will also attach to the last stitch of each round to the first one instead of making continuous rounds in a spiral. That way when I go to do the back stitching for the middle line, I won't have one slanted line making a jump from one end of the line to the other. It's okay if you keep that part to the wall, but I'm just not happy with it. I started to attempt the hot sauce bottle cover of Darth Vader, but with it being in black, I put it down after I got the head/helmet done because I was working at night and having trouble seeing it. I need to get one of those daylight lamps. I've put it on my gift list.

The Star Wars afghan inches ever so slowly toward completion. I've already told my other ds that it's going to be at least a year before I start on another one. I hope to have this one done in time to wrap it up and put it under the tree. I just can't seem to sit down and crochet for long lengths of time like I did last year. I'm going to start making time though. I had a whole list of stuff I wanted to make and it just didn't make it. I cut that list down to just a couple of things that I felt like I absolutely had to make this year. I swear that I'm going to start in February in order to get next year's presents done.

New Blog

Well, this isn't exactly a new blog, but my main crochet blog is going to no longer exist as of November 30. The host has decided to no longer provide that blog service. So, here I am. Now for the fun part: transferring all of my entries from the old blog to this one and changing the link in my email signature line. It's going to take a lot of time. I've got quite a bit of info on that other blog. I didn't realize until today just how much I had put on there. Wish me luck!!!