Crochet Me Crazy

Today did NOT feel like Sunday. Jeff was off yesterday and worked today. I guess I will have to get used to it when Jeff starts getting different days of the week off that aren't necessarily the weekends.

Michael and I went to town for groceries today. Alison went over to her friend's house to bake some goodies. Her friend's mom's new coffee/gift shop is grand opening tomorrow so they were baking stuff for that.

I've been obsessing a bit over a new project. I can't remember if I mentioned this or not but I'm about to start on another afghan. I was first obsessing over which pattern. I have quite a few afghan patterns that I have always loved. I think I have it pretty much narrowed down to this one....

It's called Blue Star Afghan and it's from the book Herrschner's Blue Ribbon Afghans
This, like the Prairie Star, is one of those afghans that I have always loved and wanted to make someday. I always change the colors of things but I even love the colors on this. I won't be able to start this right away though because I have to locate the yarn first. I can't believe they don't give you specific yarn colors or brands on this! That is the part I'm having trouble with. I don't have a place to buy yarn close by and I just can't get a good enough look at the yarns to order online. I looked at Wal-Mart today but they didn't have a good enough selection. I've got to come up with the varigated color first and then match the rest of the solids with that. I have to get the colors right on a project this big. I am a little bit NERVOUS about starting this, however. I'm glad I did a little reading about it online first because I discovered that there are apparently a lot of ERRORS in this pattern and in this book in general. It's a little annoying to spend money on a published book and then find out it has so many errors. I did find a page of corrections online and apparently Herrschner's will send them to you if you request them. Even with the corrections, I had read on a crochet-along thread, that people still had problems with it. I'm just thankful I found this out BEFORE hand! I don't know how long it will be until I can get to a craft store to buy yarn so I'll have to find something else to keep busy with until then. One thing I plan on digging out is my Star Coverlet I abandoned working on in the RV for lack of space. I've asked Jeff to get it out of storage so I can sew that together.

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