It is no lie when I say I could clean for a week and probably not have it up to white glove standards. We don't live in squalor, but we are people who let things go. So I try every once in awhile to do a purge/shift/trash. This weekend it was with the cedar chest. I still have not stripped the chest, but the inside is clean and vacuumed and I put all the linens in there. Inside the box of linens were a few items that need repairs. One was an afghan from Sue's Aunt Lorraine made by Sue's grandmother. It was falling apart, and since I am the weird one who is always doing something with yarn I was given the afghan with the hope that I could fix it. I had put in safety lines in over a yr ago and put it in the cedar chest for when I felt more confident of my crochet skills. Last nite I took out some similar colored yarn and began the repairs. Knowing my crochet gauge would never match her grandmother's.. both in yarn weight and skill level.. I am going for the quick and dirty repair. I am seaming them together with crochet. There will be a loss on size, but Lorraine says she didn't care what I did.. even adding another color. I went for the same colored yarn and am making a nice seam that probably won't effect the overall look of the afghan.This is one of those "can you fix it" problems that almost any person who spends as much time on the needles as I do gets from freinds, family and even strangers. FIX THIS is often the cry. Hopefully I will have it fixed and a nice pic put up of the repair in a few days.
Post je objavljen 28.11.2009. u 23:08 sati.