Crochet Me Crazy

1st strip of King Sized Afghan 

Well, here is my 1st completed strip of my King Sized Afghan! It's hard to see the detail much in this picture but, of course, you can see closeups of the squares in other posts. I've measured it to my cover my comforter. Each strip will consist of twelve 6" squares with approximately 1" of tan border around each square. I am planning on putting a strip of fans about 3 inches wide in tan between each row of squares vertically. So it will be row of squares, strip of tan fans, row of squares, strip of fans, etc... This will help me with the quantity of squares I still need to make. I know it seems like I have a lot of squares but I still need a lot more! I need to do an estimate of how many strips it looks like I'm going to need after I get my first strip of fans done. I'm pretty happy with the product so far. I spent a lot of time tonight doing swatches of different stitches trying to decide on what stitch to use for my strips. I finally made up my mind on a fan stitch and got about 6" inches of strip done. This is going to be ONE HUGE AFGHAN!!! My strip was so long I couldn't get a picture of the whole thing in my living room without having my daughter hold it up for me.

I bought my comforter last week that I'm using to go under this. It is a tan about the same color as my border so any spaces in the afghan will show the tan comforter that matches my border. It's an oversized king sized comforter and my afghan is going to be the same size.

Hopefully this will be an afghan that my kids will feel is worthy to be passed down the generations.