Some of our bloggers wanted to know more about Sue's newest crocheting project. It's The Snow Queen Blanket from Mary Maxim. Unlike all of the previous throws, it came as a kit with all of the necessary wool. For previous projects, Sue had to source the raw material.
Although Sue has envisioned Snow Queen to be a winter project, she has jumped right to it. The markers that you see are for counting stitches, especially useful to keep track when one must do long rows of similar stitches.
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| Winter White |
For newer folk, this is the first afghan, Peppermint, that Sue crocheted back in 2017. She subsequently made four more versions: two for our daughters, and two for the cat lady to auction. If you are interested in more details they are here in The Afghan Explained by Sue, herself.
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| Peppermint Afghan |
There have others over the years. The Celtic Cable (top left, below) and the Poinsettia (right) afghans are shown in the following collage along with the original peppermint throw. The cable stitch made the Celtic Cable the most difficult pattern of all. It involved much ripping and redoing to get it right. It became a gift to her sister, Heather.
She has crocheted two other blanket-size creations that she made without patterns. The two images on the left, below, are one throw, the two on the right another.
If I am counting correctly, Sue is currently working on her 11th afghan after beginning the first in 2016 and completing it early in 2017. I expect that she will have completed 12 before next summer rolls around, but what will this 12th one be?
My eldest picket up crocheting by just reading, watching videos and following along. Thus far, all she has made are small stuffed animals and some pieces of clothing. She is a lover of lots of blankets so I'm sure projects like this will be in her future.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty, AC. I really like the dark one in the next-to-last picture. But they are all gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteShe does a fine job with those. Thanks for the details. They are labors of love for sure.
ReplyDeleteHer work is just gorgeous. Love all the afghans, from colorful peppermint to monochromatic!
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful stitchery! Sue is certainly an excellent crafts-woman! Thanks for sharing all these photos of these warm and comforting blankets!
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