I started this afghan before I went in the army. I finished it when I was waiting to go to Hawaii. I added Tom's name on the top then. While I was in Ohio, I tore it all apart and reused the yarn in other projects.
I loved making it, especially with a lot of different colored balls of yarn hanging off of it with rubber bands around them to keep them from unraveling. It may or may not have helped but I had a few cats and kittens trying to help me keep the yarns straight.
On its own, it never kept me warm enough. It was heavy and huge. I may even have grown to hate looking at it. I put "The Sons Of Liberty" across the top for a historical Sons of Liberty but I later found out that in more recent years there was a group calling themselves that who were little more than vigilantes. It was just another reason to destroy it.
I am trying for the life of me to figure out what the heck that white thing is on the floor on the top of comic book. I have no clues.
This next one I think I made for Millie and just used all the scrap ends of the many balls of yarn I had.
This one did not come out right, the photo I mean not the quilt.
I bought yards of pastel cotton in different colors. I cut them closely to the size of a coloring book page but a little bigger.
Then I carefully traced pages from a Winnie the Pooh coloring book, one on each piece. I freestyle embroidered them, pieced them together with the red material and it worked. It looked nice. But I had no kid to enjoy it.
It got lost in Colorado.
That's a repeat but just to show you how I got started with the freestyle embroidery. You can't see it here but each of those blue circles has a tiny mirror underneath the threads.
A different view of the jeans outfit.