Kelly (1hundredprojects) came to stay with me and take advantage of being able to work remotely…hence the project name.

I’ve been collecting worsted weight spirit yarn to make another garter squish afghan for my brother. He had seen an afghan at Close Knit in Portland, Oregon that he loved. I thought I could replicate that pattern by dyeing the yarn. Turns out we remembered the afghan very differently! :-) I decided to make this one and get the correct yarn to make the afghan he really wants…(Noro mania blanket).

Kelly and I sorted the yarn into yarn that had been commercially dyed in two shades of camel (light and dark). These we overdyed in a terra cotta gradient for a total of 2,100 yards to be the main color.

The undyed yarn we separate into two batches to be used for the contrasting color. The first batch we painted with dye in short 1-3 inch sections. The second batch we dyed by dipping 1/2 of skein in dye pot, and then the second half in another dye pot to get about 30” color sections. I have 1,500 yards so will have to get some more spirit yarn to dye.

Broke each skein into two cakes. Ordered them 1 to 12 and each 1//2 and 2/2

9/17 Cast on 160 stitches.

9/23 Started CC5 1/2

9/24 Started CC6 1/2 and MC3

9/28 Started CC7

9/29 Dyed three skeins Cascade 220 because I was short 600 yards of CC colors.

10/1 Started MC4 and CC8

10/3 Started CC9

10/5 Didn’t like CC9 (not enough contrast) so I ripped back, rearranged CCs a bit.

10/7 Started CC10

10/8 Started CC11

10/10 Started CC12

10/18 Started CC13

10/19 Started MC5

10/20 Started CC14

10/22 Started CC15 and MC6.

10/24 Started CC1

10/25 Started CC2 and MC7

10/30 Started CC3

10/31 Started MC8

11/2 Started CC4

11/3 Started CC5

11/4 Started CC6

11/8 Started CC7 and MC9

11/10 Started CC8

11/11 Started CC9

11/13 Started CC10 and CC11

11/14 CC12

11/16 Bound off.

Finished size: 60” x 72”

I. Love. This. Blanket.