Help...my afghan is too wide

[jlr917]

Hi. I don't know if this is a ridiculous question. A friend asked me to crochet an afghan for her baby. She requested it be 34 x 46 inches. I'm not using a pattern, just alternating single and treble stitches. I thought I had right chain length at the beginning, but I must have made it too long, so now instead of being 34 inches wide, it's more like 45 inches. Stupidly, I didn't measure this out until I thought I was getting close to being done. I found that it is currently 45 inches wide and 30 inches high. So, I'm wondering if I can simply turn it. It is striped, so I'm wondering if it will be weird if the stitches, and stripes, go vertical instead of horizontal? Has anybody else done this?

[magiccrochetfan]

I haven't but I would do it in a heartbeat!  No one will ever know that you originally envisioned the stripes going the other way!  

[ddc]

That sounds fine to me. You can add a border to fill it out to the 46" length.

[MaryPat]

Go ahead and turn it. I think it would be cute with a striped border as well.

[RoseRed]

Just turn it.  It'll look like you did it on purpose.

 

I would do the length at 33 inches and then add a 1 inch border to bring it all together and to make it the size that was requested.