Hi all, I'm glad to find this board with so many active members!

My mom taught me how to crochet when I was a wee girl but I've only picked it up again in the last few years. My sisters and sister-in-law are also crafty type women but we can't seem to get together for crafty fun times lately, so I'd love to meet some friends here to jaw about fibercrafts with.

I've got three projects and an experiment I'm working on currently. I guess I'll tell you about them.

First one is a granny square scarf for my niece, for Christmas, small black granny squares, red edging, then joined in black, with fringe on the end--haven't decided about the color of the fringe. It's been giving me fits but I think it will turn out nicely. I'm doing it in this wonderful soft worsted that's cotton and birch modal. Really shows off the stitches, which Brookie won't care about, but is light enough and worked open enough that she won't die of heat stroke when she wears it, which she will be happy for.

The second is an afghan in granny squares of green, blue, red, and yellow, edged in black (I like black), and I hope to place them so as to make sort of a pseudo-rainbow effect diagonally. At this stage I'm still working on the squares so we'll see. I originally intended this to be a bedspread, but I have dogs who like to dig at the blankets, so I'm not sure that's the best idea ever, LOL.

The third project and the oldest is an afghan that is one monstrous granny square in this yellow, orange, and white ombre. It's from a blanket my mom made waaaaaaay back (in the 70s) in yellow and white ombre that I called the scrambled egg blanket when I was small, because that's what it looked like to me; when I saw that yarn at the Joann, I immediately thought OMG SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH CHEESE!

The experiment is me trying to work a square blanket of diamond lattice from the middle out. If you've been hearing some woman use lots of bad language very loudly from a long way away, that was probably me. I can't get it to come out right.

I have about a zillion other things on my mental list to make, including a special-request hat for my son and an afghan for my roommate, but I'm sticking with these ones right now, because too many projects = no projects being finished. I've been reading through the "what are you working on" thread and enjoying it. I love to see other people's stuff and get new ideas, and I *really* love it when people ask questions and get answers that solve problems I didn't even realize were happening!

Also I'm long winded, sorry. Looking forward to forum-ing with y'all!