Last year, I didn’t do any decorating for Christmas. This year, I purchased a new tree (CanadianTire.ca) and, then, found some gnomes at Costco that matched beautifully.
Although I hadn’t crocheted in years (I don’t know how that happened), my stash of yarn was crying out to me, “make something”.
Enjoying my little Christmas display, I decided to make a lapghan to match the apron on the girl gnome.
I designed it, using the GoDaddy Studio app (previously Over) and, then, Stitchboard.com to turn it into a graph pattern.
I have to admit that it took me 24 hours of researching crocheting and ripping out and re-doing to figure out how to best create the snowflakes. Embarrassing!!!
I still think there is another way, but the intarsia-type strategy worked.
I had wanted to do a Tunisian crochet “in the round” but the apron design begged to be a straight afghan. So straight Tunisian it is.
My next challenge was that I was using leftover yarn and I soon ran out of the grey. Now, remember that it has been years since I used that yarn and, somehow, I had to incorporate new yarn into the Afghan, with the two versions of grey.