NEW PROJECT!!!! Yesterday I was confined to a car in Amish country, traveling around on a day of family fun and I started a new afghan! This one is going to be the same basic colors of my first afghan (blues and purples) because I have sooooo much leftover yarn. It is from the Lion Brand pattern Wind Chime and it looks really cool. This is the first project that I've made that has intentional holes in it giving it the lacy look (or really just a patterned look). I'm debating whether I should adapt the pattern a little and make the intended length into my width and then make a really big blanket instead of a lap throw thing. Hopefully, this little blankey can be modified into at big ass afghan that I can give to my sister sometime... whenever it's done. Luckily its just a double crochet so its been going really fast but I am looking forward to trying to attach the stripes together with this fancy crisscross look. We'll see what happens!
In an Update on my other projects: Work on little Nessie the Loch Ness Monster / Dinosaur / creature has stalled out until early Jully when I can go up to my grandmother's house to take a look at the original pattern and reevaluate shoe size. And the Supernatural penguins are put on hold until I can find my tapestry needles!! They are no where to be found and it is very frustrating.
So back to my new project and a fun fact that may be commonly known or guessed according to Oxford Dictionary, aka this random website that cites the Oxford Dictionary, the etymology of Afghan goes like this:
"As you might suspect, the word "afghan" refers to the country of Afghanistan. The coverlet was originally produced by the Afghanis. In fact, the term "afghan" is a shortened form of reference for three things, in addition to the usual reference to the people of Afghanistan. In reference to the people, however, the word is capitalized. The other two "afghans" are the dog [a hound] and woven carpet, produced in a style that is unique to the Afghani people."
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