Looking for afghan suggestions
I'm searching for a pattern that will accommodate three autumnal colors of 5 skeins each, 6-colors if I hold 2 strands together, that has a non-holey fabric. No lace, this is for a guy. I've found some in stitch books that I'm about to swatch, but do any of you have some ideas?
I'm discovering why ripple afghans are so common, but I want something different. Moan.
The back story - I wanted to make a super easy afghan for my son, his house is cold, and spotted a pattern on the Lion Brand site where you hold three strands of yarn together and make V-stitches with an enormous S hook. One of those 5 1/2 hour afghans (yeah, right). Problem - the S hook is very awkward to work with, at least for me, but I'd soldier on anyway if I liked the results. The stitches are too open. They also seem very likely to snag.
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I'm a long time but sporadic knitter and crocheter. Retired, I now have more time for yarn, hooray! Inspired by all the lovely new designs I decided to concentrate on crochet for now, smallish projects to cut the boredom factor. It seems I can't crochet for long without having to get up and do something, LOL, so it takes forever to finish the simplest projects.
I'm a grandmother, live by myself, dote on a darling chihuahua, and play ukulele with a seniors group.
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How about a simple double crochet or even triple? It'll be more solid and go quickly.
Thanks, Joyzzie. I have started a ripple of double strand single crochet, some rows in back loop only to get a ridge. It looks good in the pattern photo, but I have a horrible time 'reading' the work and checking that the increases and decreases fall in the right spot. Aha, I'll place markers. Yikes, I can't figure out where to place the markers!
That was sleepy time last night. Today it might all be more obvious.
Pauline
I'm going to suggest a basketweave pattern. I made a basketweave afghan for my sister last year and it went really well. The textured stitch looked great and the resulting fabric was thick and warm.
Thanks, WhiteBear.
I ended up with something basket-weavy using a single strand of worsted. It's a *3 dc, 3 ch* repeat with color A. Next row with color B, it's *ch 3, 3 dc over the ch sts and into the sts 2 rows before, like a dc spike st* repeat. Repeat a row with color C. Then A, then B, etc. Not clear, I know.
It produces a 3-color check and a fairly thick fabric because of the chain-3 bits buried in the double crochet stitch. BUT it takes me 15 minutes to do a row. This won't be any 5 1/2 hour afghan. I'm all of 6 rows into it. Groan. Maybe I should give up and buy some super-bulky yarn.
It's called Interlocking Block Stitch, under Spikes, in "The Harmony Guide to Crochet Stitches, Volume One". I even found a PDF of the pattern, http://www.craftleftovers.com/patterns/theperfectdishcloth.pdf , but it doesn't look the same because it's done with two colors. Versatile stitch. The two-color sample in the Harmony book had vertical stripes.
Pauline