my current afghan project

gremlin · 09-02-2010, 05:50 PM

My nephew is on his high school's football team again this year (sophmore). His mom (my sister) decided she wanted a "stadium blanket" that could double as a seat cushion when it was too hot to have it cover them. She asked if I could work up a crocheted blanket with the school colors and if there was a way to do the teams logo on the blanket. So I pulled out my graph paper, printed of a copy of the logo, and had fun coloring squares. Then I counted the squares. Now, I am crocheting. It is coming along quite nicely. The colors are a perfect match to my nephews uniform. Navy blue and gold - with white as an accent color.

The first picture is of my nephew's uniform showing the logo. Then pictures of the blanket as it has progressed.

**gma2rjc** · 09-02-2010, 06:26 PM

Nice job! It's looking great!

It looks like a lot of work. A lot of confusing work with all of those different rolls of yarn.

Thanks for posting!

Barb

Angela · 09-02-2010, 07:45 PM

Wow that is looking good. I can tell where the logo is! I'm with Barb. It looks awfully confusing to me.

I hope your sister understands and appreciates the amount of work you are putting into this!

Dumb question of the day: What is a sophmore? We just go by grades here. My daughter is going into grade twelve.... I'm pretty sure freshman is grade nine. I think.

gremlin · 09-02-2010, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Angela

Wow that is looking good. I can tell where the logo is! I'm with Barb. It looks awfully confusing to me.

I hope your sister understands and appreciates the amount of work you are putting into this!

Dumb question of the day: What is a sophmore? We just go by grades here. My daughter is going into grade twelve.... I'm pretty sure freshman is grade nine. I think.

Sophmore is 10th grade.

Yes it is confusing with all the different strands coming off it, but I couldn't carry the yarn. The two colors are different enough that you could see the blue under the yellow and the yellow under the blue - it was not a pretty sight. So, I drop the blue and pick up yellow, and vice versa. Of course, then, I have to pull the color through the last stitch so it is up ready for the next row. Can't pull a whole skein through, so I have a nice long strand that I pull through, wrap around my fingers, and clip with a clothespin. It takes almost as long to pull the yarns through each row as it does to crochet the row!

**gma2rjc** · 09-02-2010, 10:17 PM

Make sure to show her this thread so she can see how much work and time it's taking! lol

Barb

downrightart · 09-03-2010, 08:12 PM

Oh man....that's going to be really nice! Great job!

I've made some Florida Gator ones, but it was easier! I just used orange and blue granny squares. That will be really nice and WARM!

kenbo · 09-03-2010, 08:45 PM

That's turning out very nice. I hope you are recording what you do. Possibly even making a pattern, because when the other parents see this one, you know the orders are going to start pouring in.

pinokeeo · 09-03-2010, 11:04 PM

It looks great. I agree it's confusing and it looks very time consuming. I'm sure she will appreciate it.

Take lots of pictures when it's done.

lady_cyanide · 09-08-2010, 05:04 PM

looks great so far! my boyfriend keeps nagging me to make saints blankets to sell....intarsia is just so annoying for me! i admire your patience!

gremlin · 09-08-2010, 05:50 PM

Intarsia?!? Is that what I'm doing? I thought I was just crocheting!

I have now passed the halfway point of the design. (YEAH!!!) You can see where the S curves around behind the center of the M to set it apart and make it look like a V. "Shadow Mountain" and "Victory" is what the logo represents, so the have the S curve around and M also represents the V.