Monday, April 16, 2012

Curl up with a good book afghans

It's never too early to plan your holiday season list. As of right now, you are about 8-1/2 months away from Christmas. If you have a reader in your life, these afghans would make the perfect gift for a birthday or Christmas. Some areas are just naturally cold all the time and some folks love curling up under a warm afghan and reading a book. So delight your reader with these modified alternating V and cluster stitched afghans. Each sample below measures 18 clusters (about 1/3 of regular width) and 12 rows (1/6 the number of rows a full afghan has). The full afghans measure about 50" (cluster/V rows across) x 45" (72 rows). They sell for $60 each plus shipping and tax ($70 total when ordered from websites; if purchasing at in-person events, only tax would be charged). When ordering, please leave any special requests (if doing solid colors, please indicate the 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices of preferred colors) in the notes section. Also, please make sure your mailing address is correct so that I can send your afghan to you upon completion. Turn around time is about 3-4 weeks.


Colors available are:


Bonbon print (looks like Cotton Candy to me and my daughter keeps trying lay claim to this one)


Woodsy (looks very earth-y to me and this would make a great gift for a guy on your list)


Primary (the colors really don't look like primary colors to me but this is what the yarn is called)


Monet (sold first one but more are on the way) - (this one looks very Easter-y or springy to me)


Melonberry (again has a spring look to it - this is one of my favorites)


Marrakesh (this is the one that has that fall look to it)


Aspen (another one that is guy looking).

(SOLID 3-COLOR, 4-ROW CHANGE SAMPLE; THESE ARE NOT THE PARTICULAR COLORS BEING OFFERED AS THAT CHOICE WILL BE UP TO YOU BUT IF I CANNOT FIND YARN SIMILARLY PRICED THE PRICE WILL HAVE TO GO UP)


(SOLID 3-COLOR, 2-ROW CHANGE SAMPLE; SEE NOTE ABOVE)


(SOLID 1-COLOR SAMPLE; AGAIN SEE NOTE ABOVE)

Also available are 1-solid color afghans (this is the completed afghan in one color of your choice and if ordering solid colors, please say things like sky blue or navy blue or emerald green - something to give me an idea of the color you are looking for - I can't guarantee exact colors on some of them but I will do my best to get as close to the requested as possible); 3-solid colors, 2-row switched out (every two rows (a cluster and V row) will change; please indicate which color is 1st, 2nd and 3rd); or a 3-solid colors, 4-row changed out (this is very similar to the 2-row switched out but every four rows (there will be a cluster row, a V row, a cluster row, a V row) before switching colors. Again, please indicate 1st, 2nd and 3rd colors).

Samples are above. Remembering that the solid colored afghans are not the actual colors I would be restricted to since these are just samples using yarn I happened to have available at the time I was making the samples.

You can order these afghans from either my personal website under the gifts tab or on the JGDS series website also under the gifts tab. With each afghan, you will also receive a matching bookworm at no extra charge.

See you all in the postings - E :)

3 comments:

AlienDog said...

I don't understand what all those descriptions of the style mean, but the samples look great. You have some very lovely color schemes, and the pricing seems quite affordable too!

I know what I 'll be doing with my birthday money this year. :)

elysabeth said...

lol - funny. When you see an afghan, it will make more sense. The rows alternate between what is called a shell stitch (3 double crochets in the space or stitch indicated - I call it a cluster stitch since what I learned as a shell isn't like this (shell looks like a scallop kind of, but there are lots of variances to the stitches)) and a V stitch (double crochet, 2 chains, double crochet in the middle of the 3 double crochet cluster).

I may be adding more to my line this weekend when I check out Michael's yarn since I think Walmart is discontinuing their varigated yarns - just have to see what I find - lol - chat soon - E ;)

elysabeth said...

Congrats, AlienDog. By default since no one else left a comment you won the Woodsy bookworm. I'll send this out to you this week - E :)