My Prairie Star

I wanted to share this afghan I made as a wedding gift for my son and daughter-in-law last year.  I was cleaning up (yeah, that doesn't happen much) and found some of the charts I made, so I figured I would share.

I started by searching for an afghan that looked like a quilt, and I chose this pattern from Red Heart called Prairie Star Afghan as a starting point.  I started with a diagram for the pattern and filled it in with my chosen color scheme (my daughter-in-law loves purple and my son loves green).  I think the colors worked out well!

  Anyway I started with the diagram below.  Then I filled it in with colored pencils.  As the chart filled, I added my own increases to make it queen size.  I was shooting for measurements of 66 x 84 and it turned out to be a little bigger.

I filled in most of the chart before I started, but when the measurements needed to be much bigger than the original pattern, I charted as I went.

my chart filling up

 My chart almost done!
The finished product!  I was definitely a labor of love!

You can find the pattern and diagram for the Prairie Star Afghan HERE.  There is also an excellent YouTube tutorial for this pattern HERE

Circle Jacket

Recently finished a circle jacket and I am thrilled with it!  I used a free pattern from Drops Design called Moonlight Mist.  To make it fit a 5-7 year old, I used dk(3) yarn and a J 5.5mm hook.  You can pretty much size this to anyone by changing yarn weight or hooks.  The armhole placement really determines the size however!

 You can find the free pattern HERE