I Totally Made This!: Bobble Stitch Afghan

After way too long, I'm back in the blogging world. I'm not promising for how long, but I'm here today. I've actually been making lots of stuff and taking pictures, it's just the dang posting that's getting in the way. The latest project that I finished today took me soooooo long to make that I had to celebrate by posting. I'll catch up on the other stuff later.

This is just a simple crocheted baby afghan using single and double crochet with a bobble stitch thrown in. You can find the pattern and tutorial here. If you're not sure how to do a bobble stitch, the tutorial has a link to a "how to". It is a very easy pattern but it just got a little tedious with the repetitiveness of it. I tend to get bored rather quickly when working on an afghan, so maybe it's just me.

The only problem I ran into was totally my fault. I had three skeins of the yarn the pattern called for already so I decided to go with those and add some extra colors. I picked up 4 more colors, brought them home and started on the afghan. But I decided that I didn't like my color choices and instead of doing 7 different colors, I would stick with 4. Back to the store I went to exchange the unwanted colors - enter problem. They didn't have one of the colors I was going to need. I didn't worry about it too much until after like 3 more trips to the store, they still didn't have the color I was lacking. After checking inventories online, the only store that had the color I needed was about a half an hour away where we don't really travel much. BOOOOOO! I finally made the trip, got the needed yarn and finished it up. Let that be a lesson to everyone - make sure you have all the yarn you need BEFORE you start a project. That's probably why it took me so long. I lost steam with the yarn debacle and it took me a long while to get it back.

So here are the pictures. I took a few so you could see how the front and back turned out differently when using a bobble stitch. I do like how this turned out and I may make another one in the future, but for now I can't wait for the next two months to pass quickly so our little baby and I can cuddle under it.