Gayer's afgan is pretty much done... all that remains is a few ends to be woven in and some of the names re-embroidered in white (they all started out in black, and it didn't show on all of the squares). What a relief. I'm incredibly pleased with how it came out, especially once I completed the edging so that it is very lacy looking... like little mini picots all along the sides.

For anyone that isn't familiar with this project, here is a quick background:

I wanted to make my grandmother a family afgan since I know that she gets lonely sometimes and would love to have something from the family to wrap up in. I asked each person on that side of my family to choose a skein of yarn that they felt represented him/her. They then gave the skeins to me to create afgan squares. I started the project before Christmas, and after a couple of months of reminding (harassing) relatives that they needed to give me their (flipping) yarn, I managed to get yarn from all of my relatives except one.





I am going to finish the embroidery this weekend and give the afgan to Gayer on her birthday on March 29th.

Remember the red WOTA that I had planned on using to make a bag for Project Spectrum? Yeah... it finally told me that it didn't want to be a bag. I'm in the process of creating some Mary Jane slippers with it instead. Now that Gayer's afgan isn't the source of all my concentration, I should actually finish this project before the end of March and red/pink.