Afghan update
Feb. 28th, 2026 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThere are ten squares done. Nine squares are blocked. The 11th square is in progress. I have a full bobbin of brown and a full bobbin of white (it's been a spinning week) and I need another bobbin of white (ugh but less ugh than it has been so... winning?) in order to make up more 2w1b yarn.
How's the yarn holding out?
I have 3 cakes and one small ball of brown yarn. (One full cake on my cheap ass ball winder makes a square with a little left over. This amount of yarn is likely 3 squares but probably not 4 squares.)
The plan is for 14 all-brown squares.
I currently have 7 all-brown squares completed, so I don't have enough existing yarn to finish the "all brown" squares. Full disclosure: I got the all-brown yarn from NYR's mom who spun it in the late 1990's but passed away before using the yarn. I do not have any fleece that exactly matches this yarn but I do have brown fleece that is fairly close. Even if it's not fairly close, I'm going to go ahead with it because it's a fucking afghan and not couture for Fashion Week. It'll be covered in cat hair by the end of the first week of its life.
Anyway, there will have to be some not-original all brown in the all brown squares. I'm OK with that. There's definitely going to be some not-original brown in the partial browns... and there always has been because I've made all that yarn myself out of fleece I had on hand.
Okay, well, how about the white?
There's white roving that I want to use up because I don't... love it. I have... a bag? And part of another bag?
Is it all the same kind of wool?
I don't know. It's all white. That's good enough and honestly better than my situation with the brown.
Is there enough of the white roving?
I don't know. Maybe? But if not, I have a large box of white fleece that will work fine once I work off the roving and honestly I prefer fleece to roving. By a fucking mile.
(There is a shit-ton of spinning in my future.)
I currently have 1 small cake of 1b2w yarn that is probably a little short of 1 square and maybe enough 2b1w yarn to make one more square.
Square totals:
7 brown squares
2 mostly-brown squares
1 mostly-white square, 1 mostly-white square in progress.
10 squares down, folks. That's 23% done.
How's the yarn holding out?
I have 3 cakes and one small ball of brown yarn. (One full cake on my cheap ass ball winder makes a square with a little left over. This amount of yarn is likely 3 squares but probably not 4 squares.)
The plan is for 14 all-brown squares.
I currently have 7 all-brown squares completed, so I don't have enough existing yarn to finish the "all brown" squares. Full disclosure: I got the all-brown yarn from NYR's mom who spun it in the late 1990's but passed away before using the yarn. I do not have any fleece that exactly matches this yarn but I do have brown fleece that is fairly close. Even if it's not fairly close, I'm going to go ahead with it because it's a fucking afghan and not couture for Fashion Week. It'll be covered in cat hair by the end of the first week of its life.
Anyway, there will have to be some not-original all brown in the all brown squares. I'm OK with that. There's definitely going to be some not-original brown in the partial browns... and there always has been because I've made all that yarn myself out of fleece I had on hand.
Okay, well, how about the white?
There's white roving that I want to use up because I don't... love it. I have... a bag? And part of another bag?
Is it all the same kind of wool?
I don't know. It's all white. That's good enough and honestly better than my situation with the brown.
Is there enough of the white roving?
I don't know. Maybe? But if not, I have a large box of white fleece that will work fine once I work off the roving and honestly I prefer fleece to roving. By a fucking mile.
(There is a shit-ton of spinning in my future.)
I currently have 1 small cake of 1b2w yarn that is probably a little short of 1 square and maybe enough 2b1w yarn to make one more square.
Square totals:
7 brown squares
2 mostly-brown squares
1 mostly-white square, 1 mostly-white square in progress.
10 squares down, folks. That's 23% done.
