I saw this pattern on a dubious website, (that I'm not going to recommend the website), but I am going to recommend the blog that it originated from: Simply Crochet & other crafts. I immediately fell in love with it and knew I had to make one.
I had a difficult time finding the print yarn. I think it must be a Red Heart yarn that has been discontinued. Joann Fabrics in Salina had it and I bought all they had, which was 5 skeins, so I'm hopeful that this will be enough to finish this project.
There are 3 strips that resemble the one pictured here, and then 2 strips that are reversed. I have finished this 1 row, so far, and I started this project back in December 2015. I'm only working on it during breaks at work, so it may take a while. That's fine, because I don't need it finished until September of this year and I think I can make that deadline. LOL
I'm using aspen print, buff, and frosty green. They look dynamite together and these colors make it very country looking. Originally when I saw this pattern I thought that the aspen print was fabric because it looked more like fabric than yarn.
As I've worked on this at work, one of my co-workers became intrigued and began asking a lot of questions. Finally she asked me if I would show her how to crochet and I said that I would. We had an out of town work meeting to go to one day with a long drive ahead of us and she and I were sitting in the back. She said she would bring yarn and a hook but I didn't believe her. People say things all the time. But she showed up with hook and yarn and I showed her how to make a chain and a single crochet.
By the time we got to the meeting she was "hooked" LOL. She wanted to take her crochet into the meeting, We talked her out of it. At lunch she wanted to go through the drive thorough because it would take time away from crocheting to go in to eat. We made her go in with us. Back at the meeting we had to wrestle her crochet away from her because she didn't want to get out of the car to go back to the meeting. On the way home, we stopped for gas and a potty break and she refused to get out of the car. LOL When we got home she said she was sending her daughters out to eat because it would take to much time to fix supper. I think I created a monster!!!
Now she's taught her daughter how to crochet, she's got 5 more projects planned, and she's starting to hang out on the yarn aisle at Wal Mart. LOL
One of the ladies that attended the meeting with us, told me yesterday that she got so interested in what we were doing that she has started a project and is thinking about making a temperature blanket, too. She's saved photos to her phone so she can look at them at work to stay close to her crochet. LOL
Whatever you do in life, it has a ripple effect that you have no idea how many people it will touch.
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