"Life's Work" graphghan

[wolfse]

I have a friend who requested that I design and make a blanket for her upcoming graduation from PA school that represents her "life's work" and personal identity.

Soooooooooo

Here are the results (so far).

It's four panels that need to be joined in a way that the slightly landscape oriented panels will work together to form a more portrait oriented total blanket.  I figure that there will be a "bigger" border at the top, middle, and bottom of the finished product than on the sides or between the panels (vertically) in order to make this happen.

 

I'm waiting on the delivery of blocking pins and mats before I work on joining the panels, though.  They are the same number of stitches, but it's taken me so long to get to this point, that my tension isn't entirely even between them.  And, the caduceus is the smallest.....all of those little feathers cause it not to drape quite as nicely as the other ones do.  I about pulled my hair out doing them -- especially working all the ends in (gak!).  The AF logo took the least amount of time, basically two weekends of SOLID work (gotta love game day tv!), with the "A" being the first that was completed. 

 

All were done in tunisian stitching using an afghan hook with a cable on the end.  My cats are tremendously angry that I did not allow them to kill the various bobbins of yarn.  I ended up having to work the blanket inside of a laundry basket in order to keep the balls of yarn same from them.  I held the basket tipped between the coffee table and the couch, with my feet on either side of it.

 

[kittyloverdeb]

Wow that is amazing and alot of work!  Sure to be a very treasured blanket!

[greyhoundgrandma]

Wow! Must be a really good friend!

[Tampa Doll]

Wow I can not wait to see it all put together.  That is one very fascinating afghan.

[cshort]

Amazing!

[wolfse]

I've had to put it down for a bit in order to handle some work issues, but I'm anxious to pick it up again.  I notoriously have issues with scale, so I'm hoping that simple-stitched panels will work in order to act as borders.  My deadline is 8 weeks away - graduation!  Yikes!!!

 

Oh, yeah....and I still haven't started the pattern for my niece who requested a "long sweater with wooden buttons"!

She has to wait until I get this finished..... lol

 

oy!

[Startigerlily]

Impressive! That is going to be a stunner when completed.

[Granny Square]

Wow, beautiful work!

[AngelRoseLite]

Great work! It will be stunning when finished.

[crocheting4fun]

wow that's a lot of work but is going to be beautiful

[rainbowridergrma]

Oh My Gosh!  How neat and the caduceus is over the top!