I'm trying to get all my more recent projects up here. I'm getting it done, just slowly. Here is one that I worked on for about 3 weeks...a "lapghan". My great aunt's 90th birthday was just recently and I remembered being told how cold she gets when she runs her air conditioner because it blows directly onto where she normally sits. She's also been a big quilter most of her life, so when I saw this normally quilting pattern of a Log Cabin design on an afghan.... I knew it was EXACTLY what I was looking for...
Autumn Log Cabin Lapghan
(full-size pattern found here)
I used a size H hook & size 4 worsted yarn. You must get 7 different colors of yarn, the best use of the pattern is to get the yarns in gradients from the same base colors. The best way to keep them organized is to figure out the placement of your colors in your pattern and label the yarns with sticky notes, putting on it the letter that coordinates to that color in the pattern (as shown below)
Special Stitches used:
long-DC (this is actually how I do my DC's normally on my beanies): yo and draw up a loop in next SC, yo and draw through 1 loop on hook, yo and draw through 2 loops, yo and draw through last 2 loops on hook
long-HDC (it's really just a drop stitch): yo, insert hook into SC directly below the Chain-1 from previous row and draw up a loop to the height of row you are currently working on, yo and draw through all 3 loops on hook
As always, I edit the patterns to make them turn out better or to explain things better (pictures above each section to show what you should have when done with that particular section)....
Use color A in this section. I made 17 (16 for my 4 square by 4 square lapghan and 1 for a matching cushion that I'll be finishing later on)
Chain 2
Round 1: 8 SC in second chain from hook, join to form a circle, turn
Round 2: Chain 1, SC in next, (long-DC, SC, long-DC) all in next, SC in next, (long-DC, SC, long-DC) all in next, SC in next, (long-DC, SC, long-DC) all in next, SC in next, (long-DC, SC, long-DC) all in last, join, turn
Round 3: Chain 1, SC in first, 3 HDC in next, (SC in next 3, 3 HDC in next) 3 times, SC in next 2, join
Finish off.
Use Color B in this section, starting at center HDC of ANY corner. In each new section, I added this new color to EVERY block before moving onto the next section. This just felt like it flowed better for me. Make sure you start each section with the right side facing you (the side that has the bobble-type of effect showing from your first section).
Row 1: SC in joining and in next 5 stitches, 3 SC in next (the corner), SC in next 6, turn
Rows 2-5: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Finish off.
Use Color C in this section, starting at the end of the last row that you had finish at from Section 2.
Row 1: SC in joining stitch and in end of next 4 rows, 5 SC, 3 SC in next (the corner), 5 SC, SC in ends of next 5 rows, turn
Rows 2-5: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Finish off.
Use Color D for this section, starting at the end of the last row that you had finish at from Section 3.
Row 1: SC in joining stitch and in end of next 4 rows, 11 SC, 3 SC in next (the corner), 11 SC, SC in ends of next 5 rows, turn
Row 2: Chain 1, SC in first, (long-DC in next, SC in next) 8 times, (long-DC, SC, long-DC) all in corner SC, SC in next, (long-DC in next, SC in next) 8 times, turn
Row 3: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Row 4: Chain 1, SC in first, (long-DC in next, SC in next) 8 times, (long-DC, SC, long-DC) all in corner SC, SC in next, (long-DC in next, SC in next) 8 times, turn
Row 5: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Finish off.
Use Color E for this section, starting at the end of the last row that you had finish at from Section 4.
Row 1: SC in joining stitch and in ends of next 4 rows, 15 SC, 3 SC in next (the corner), 15 SC, SC in ends of the next 5 rows, turn
Row 2: Chain 1, SC in first, (long-DC in next, SC in next) 10 times, (long-DC, SC, long-DC) all in corner SC, SC in next, (long-DC in next, SC in next) 10 times, turn
Row 3: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Row 4: Chain 1, SC in first, (long-DC in next, SC in next) 11 times, (long-DC, SC, long-DC) all in corner SC, SC in next, (long-DC in next, SC in next) 11 times, turn
Row 5: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Finish off.
Use Color F for this section, starting at the end of the last row that you had finish at from Section 5.
Row 1: SC in joining stitch and in ends of next 4 rows, 21 SC, 3 SC in next (the corner), 21 SC, SC in ends of next 5 rows, turn
Row 2: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Row 3: Chain 1, SC in first, (Chain 1, skip 1, SC in next) 13 times, Chain 1, skip 1, 3 SC in next (the corner), (Chain 1, skip 1, SC in next) 14 times, turn
Row 4: Chain 1, SC in first, (long-HDC in next, SC in next) 14 times, turn
Row 5: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Finish off.
Use Color G for this section, starting at the end of the last row that you had finish at from Section 6.
Row 1: SC in joining stitch and in ends of next 4 rows, 25 SC, 3 SC in next (the corner), 25 SC, SC in ends of next 5 rows, turn
Row 2: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Row 3: Chain 1, SC in first, (Chain 1, skip 1, SC in next) 15 times, Chain 1, Skip 1, 3 SC in next (the corner), (Chain 1, skip 1, SC in next) 16 times, turn
Row 4: Chain 1, SC in first, (long-HDC in next, SC in next) 16 times, 3 SC in next (the corner), SC in next, (long-HDC in next, SC in next) 16 times, turn
Row 5: Chain 1, SC in each across (doing 3 SC in center SC of the corner), turn
Finish off.
Finishing
There are so many ways to do this, but I started first by joining 16 of my blocks together with an invisible stitch to make the center of my lapghan (shown above). And then I created my border like this:
Rows 1-3 (in Color G) : SC around entire work (doing 3 SC in center of each corner), join, Chain 1
Row 4-5 (in Color D) : SC around entire work (doing 3 SC in center of each corner), join, Chain 1Row 6 (continuing in Color D): SC in first, (Chain 1, skip 1, SC in next) around entire work .... doing 3 SC in the center stitch of the corners, join, Chain 1
Row 7 (continuing in Color D): SC in first, (long-HDC in next, SC in next) around entire work .... doing 3 SC in the center stitch of the corners, join, Chain 1
Row 8 (continuing in Color D): SC around entire work (doing 3 SC in center of each corner), join, Chain 1
Rows 9-11 (in Color G) : SC around entire work (doing 3 SC in center of each corner), join, Chain 1
(And, of course, my finished work is pictured at the very top of this page)
******Credit is given where due, I don't claim any patterns to be mine that are not*****
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