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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Tree Skirt

I started crocheting a tree skirt for my Christmas tree last year.  It is from a free pattern I found on Ravelry called "Snowflake Afghan" by Lois Olson.  (Here is the link to the pattern:  http://www.artoftangle.com/snowflake.htm ).  It's a fairly easy two-color hexagon motif that you stitch together to make a blanket, but I was going to make it into a tree skirt.

Here I am a year later, and three weeks until Christmas, and it is still not finished.  The pattern is very nice - interesting and easy to memorize, but it kept getting pushed aside for things that offered more instant gratification.  And, so, I decided this would be my first UFO that I would finally turn into a FO.

Was planning on doing this in two different colors.  I started using Caron Simply Soft in Burgundy and Dark Sage.  I did the snowflake part in white, and then decided to use Caron's Party in Snow Sparkle.  I already have 13 burgundy and 13 green completed.  There is one skein each of all three colors in my stash, so I should have enough to finish.

Now to figure out how many more hexagons to do, and then stitch them all together (not looking forward to that part).  Hope to have this done by next week so I can get moving on a couple of Christmas presents that need to get finished.

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