Knitting WIP Basket Weave Afghan

Knitting WIP Afghan

 I'm more than half way done on this and I've worked on it for 4 months now.  Knitting is much slower than crochet.   I loved that I'm finally comfortable with both knit and purl stitches.  There are quite a few bobo's on this afghan, but it is my first big knitting project so I will not be too hard on myself.  The main thing is that I'm now proficient in making both purl and knit stitches and I have something to show for my effort.  I want to make another project of the same stitch pattern and when I do it, I want perfection.  In the mean time I need to finish this one.

Baby's First Play Rug - Finished

This is a reversible afghan.  For instructions on how to make the squares, please see my older post with the same title.  The individual squares are joined together using a yarn plastic needle and using a herring bone joining technique.  All yarn ends are tucked (woven) underneath the crochet stitches and worked towards and within side A and B layers.  The border is worked in 4 rounds of sc(s), starting with side A up first round, side B up, for second round; Side A up for third round and Side B up for 4th round. Since the border is not worked in a continues fashion,  after connecting with sl st (slip stitch) at the end of the round,* I turn the afghan, then ch1, then sc all around and connect with sl st to the beginning ch1. to complete the round*.  Then repeat * * the same for remaining rounds.  The reason I used this technique is to prevent the crocheted fabric from curling up towards one side of the crocheted fabric (usually the right side, side B).

Side B

Side A

Rose Curtain Tie Back on a fleece drape

Tada! How do you like it?  I was going to remove my winter drapes that are made out of fleece to keep heat in and cold out during winter time, but I think I'm just going to keep them open with these tie backs instead of removing them and hanging them back again during Fall and Winter season.

Crocheted Rose Curtain Tie Back

I want to make 3 or 4 pairs of these to use as Ties for my Curtains.

Oct. 11, 2017 update:  Pattern for this Tieback is available
here