Lunar Theme
According to the
Lunar Planner, the focus of the last lunar month (December 5
th – January 4
th) is about “self mastery, personal responsibility, and passageways of change.” My personal lunar theme for the month is “Tying Up Loose Ends.” During this time, most of my energy was spent on crocheting.
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| Squares Whose Loose Ends Still Need Tying :) |
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| Trusty Travel Basket | |
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Afghan
My surprise (to myself) crochet project was that I finished crocheting all the squares of the afghan that I’ve been working on since June 2008. I had gone to my LYS (Local Yarn Shop),
In the Making, to select some nice yarn to take with me to California for my five weeks of Waldorf Teacher Training. I chose
Nashua Superwash yarn in Magenta, Light Grey, Bright Rose, and Midnight Blue. It’s such a soft wool, that won’t felt if washed! I elected to make an afghan of granny squares, which made it a nice portable project. After that, whenever I traveled, I carried my trusty little basket with me. My husband, dog, cats, and I traveled home for the New Year holiday weekend (December 31, 2010 – January 2, 2010) and I realized how close I was to completing all the squares. From that point, my ambition was triggered and
violá! All 90 squares crocheted! Now, I just have finish clipping loose ends and sewing those squares together.
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| Random Squares from My Mathematical Pattern of Uniqueness |
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| Seven of the Nine Squares with Midnight Blue |
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Pattern
For the pattern, I decided that I wanted each square to be unique using the Magenta, Bright Rose, and Light Grey yarns I had chosen (the borders are in Midnight Blue). To make sure I had accounted for all possible designs, I used the mathematical formula for permutations with repetition, which is a fancy way of saying I used an exponent. I used four rounds for each square. Therefore, I took the number of colors possible (3) and raised it to the number of rounds (4) to get the formula 34=81. However, I had made three squares with Midnight Blue in the center and one of each other color in the last three rounds. I was then left with 84 squares, which didn’t leave me with the “squarish” shaped blanket I had imagined from 81 or 9x9. So, I crocheted six more squares with the Midnight Blue in the second and third rows and now have a nice even number of 90 or a 9x10 blanket. It will probably be about 50” x 55”. So, I’ll have more of a throw than an afghan, but I’m ok with that. I have some left over yarn in the three other colors (I’ll be using what’s left of the Midnight Blue to sew the squares together) that I can use to crochet borders and add a couple more inches to the blanket.
According to the Lunar Planner, the focus of the last lunar month (December 5th – January 4th) is about “self mastery, personal responsibility, and passageways of change.” My personal lunar theme for the month is “Tying Up Loose Ends.” During this time, most of my energy was spent on crocheting. 
