Vintage Afghan
Remember this vintage granny square afghan? I've completed 12 squares for my retro-ghan! These squares are much faster to crochet than traditional squares where you change colors every round. Because the yarn used for this retro-ghan is multi-colored, you can just keep crocheting with the same yarn until you're ready to crochet with the border color!
Most of my multi-colored yarn is only 1-5 years old and is the newer, softer version of acrylic. The one vintage yarn that I'm using is the Sayelle in orange tones. I bought 3 skeins at Faith's yard sale a few years ago. I believe it was in her Grandma's stash. It's crunchy, stiff and atomic! I love it because it resembles the yarn in my sample-ghan from the 50's.
Atomic (probably radioactive) Sayelle
Check out other grannnies on the Granny-Along blog. They are all fantastic! 
Inspiration. Thanks, Charles
Labels: yarny stuff
posted by Ellen Bloom @ 12:41 PM
5 Comments:
He's going to LOVE it!
Ellen, love the multi-color yarn idea. It is looking beautiful. I like that since with the multi it goes faster. Can't wait to see the finished afghan.
Oh my! I think I have one of these stored in the attic somewhere. It's very (ha, ha) colorful.
Susie
Beverlywood
Have I told you lately how much I love you?
That orange-brown colorway is THE best!
I've never done a granny retroghan because of all those ends...but I love your idea of letting different variegated yarns do the work for you. May I borrow it?
Atomic...makes me think of Blondie!
P.S. All those deer heads scare me.
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