My mother is having a birthday club reunion at the end of this month (everyone was born in 1923) and since this is likely to be the last one they will have I offered to make an afghan as a special prize. Since I had a mess of exchange squares in my craft room that I have yet to put together, I thought this 
would be the perfect time. But will I have enough time to get it done? I got this idea in late July-early August and I'm not one to get a project done very fast at times. I put aside the project that I was currently working on to get this done for mom.
would be the perfect time. But will I have enough time to get it done? I got this idea in late July-early August and I'm not one to get a project done very fast at times. I put aside the project that I was currently working on to get this done for mom. With each square that I was working on I was getting frustrated because some were not 7" square - many were not SQUARE period so I had to do a lot and I do mean A LOT of finagaling to get the squares to come out, well, SQUARE. After much hair pulling and ready to say "FORGET IT" - I finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel and put together the last row in one day - a magic feat for me. I assembled all the squares with the flat braid join (I just love that method) and then the edging was a simple granny square cluster (3 dc's in each chain space) and then topped it off with a row of sc in each st and a lsc in each space between the clusters. I thought it came out pretty good considering what I had to work with and all the frustration I was having with the different fibers and different tensions that the other ladies in my exchange group used.
Now I wonder if I'm ready to tackle the other bag of squares. Nah -- I think I'll finish up the two other afghans that I'm working on.
