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Way-More-Than-Four-Hour-Afghan
Adapted from THIS pattern.
Afghan is worked with a P-hook, THREE strands held together, and absolute crap load of worsted weight acrylic.
Ch 84. (Or however wide you like your blankies. I’m 5’10″ and like to be swallowed in afghan-osity. You can do 54, 64, 74, 84, 1204…)
Row 1 Sc and dc in 2nd ch from hook, *skip 1 ch, sc and dc in next ch; rep from * across. Ch 1, turn.
Row 2 Sc and dc in first dc, *skip next sc, sc and dc in next dc; rep from * across, skip last sc. Rep row 2 until afghan is about five feet long, do not fasten off. Ch 1, turn.
TRIM: Sc in each dc and dc in each sc along the top, hdc and sc in corner, for side*sc TWO times in each dc scallop and put TWO dc in each valley* (unless this is too much and super-waffly for you–drop from TWO to ONE one or both) to next corner, working an extra 2 sc at last st, sc evenly across bottom, hdc and dc in corner, then work along side edge as before, put an extra 2 sc at last st, join with slip slip st, fasten off and call the doctor for the hernia it will give you to lift this sucker onto the bed.
Toasty-oasty!
Ivory
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I am just teaching myself to crochet, and somehow found your blog and all your patterns!! I was wondering how much yarn this took? And did you just use the cheap Red Heart yarn? Most afghans use yarn that is $6-10 a piece and then use a ton of skeins..can’t aford that!
Oh, I can’t remember. It was a lot, but I used red heart or “I love that yarn” from hobby lobby
I LOVE you . . . I’m always looking for patterns (especially afghans) to tell you how many chains to increase the size. I, too, LOVE larger afghans and the patterns are usually “skimpy”. I LOVE Red Heart, Bernat and anything I can find in the “remnants bin” at A.C. Moore. You wouldn’t by any chance live in the DC area (MD, VA), would you? Thank you for including how to increase this pattern!