Sampler Afghan
This has to count as my longest project ever! Started it in July 2007 and didn’t finish it until April 2010.
In my defence, the idea was to use only leftover scraps of yarn and it does take a while to build enough double knit scraps to create something of this size. It’s about 8ft wide by 5ft long (I haven’t actually measured it) but it fits a good sized double bed with ease and is made up of 42 squares.
The other reason for doing this was to try out different techniques. Creating it confirmed that I hate intarsia but rather like entrelac. Since many of the squares in the original pattern were intarsia squares, this meant that I ended up creating quite a few non-intarsia patterns.
Also, rather than knit a border, I opted to crochet a two-colour border using spike stitch — which was the only part of the afghan that used yarn that was specifically bought.
I’m really pleased with the final result but I don’t think I’ll be knitting another one any time soon…
Whoa, a knit quilt combo. 😉
How long do your quilts take to make?