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2023 Crochet with Me… Temperature Afghan CAL… Month 2 Complete!

2023 Crochet with Me… Temperature Afghan CAL… Month 2 Complete!


2023 Crochet with Me Temperature Afghan CAL

2023 Crochet with Me Temperature Afghan CAL… Month 2 Complete! I can’t believe how fast the first two months went by! So many things happened this February! First, I retired from my regular 9-5 job as a Purchasing Agent, Took a quick trip to the coast and added another tattoo, My youngest grandson turned 2, We had record snow, I was able to watch my oldest Granddaughter Ski in a Alpine Race and take 5th(she is now qualified for State!), and took a lot of downtime relaxing and crocheting… I have included some pics to show you my February 2023… In addition to that, I completed the second month of our CAL and love it so far! It has been pretty cold here so my colors have stayed in the lower tones! I also bought a beautiful storage ottoman to keep my projects in!


It’s Never to late to get started… Head to the Crochet with Me Tab at the top of the page and find the material list, temp charts and all the info including the pattern… Also each post has a link to get historical temps!

Love the colors so far for the first 2 months! One more month and one season will be complete! I hope you love this too, and if you want to join in anytime you can go to the Crochet with Me tab at the top of the page for all the directions, there is no wrong time to start. Make one season or a full year… The instructions will have a way to find your historical temps if you want to catch up or start later!

Here is what my 2023 Crochet with Me Temperature Afghan looked like at the end of January!


I was lucky to have worked for Roseburg Forest Products for 8 years as the Purchasing Agent for the Plant in my local area… I am even more blessed to give up this office so I could retire this last February!


Fort Bragg CA

One of the first things I did was head to the Northern California Coast to Fort Bragg for a little rest and relaxation!

I also stopped by Triangle Tattoo Museum in Fort Bragg and got this lovely tattoo from Nicola.. While there I met Madame Chinchilla and had a lovely long chat, she is amazing!… Read more about the museum and Madame Chinchilla along with Mr G by clicking here! So interesting!


Next was one of my favorite days, my youngest Grandson’s 2nd birthday… Love this guy so much!


In February we continued to get some extreme weather here in the Pacific Northwest… Tons of fresh snow and a lot of shoveling!


This month I was on the road up top our local ski area, Mt. Shasta Ski Park to watch my beautiful 15 year old Granddaughter in the Alpine Ski Races!!! The snow on the road was plowed taller than my car!

Of course, She looks like a pro to me… She did very well this season averaging 5th place as a high school sophomore… Now she is headed to State!!! This girl warms my heart and is the sweetest thing ever!

The only thing I missed was heading to see my 13 year old grandson and my daughter in Washington and my youngest daughter down in Santa Cruz.. Hopefully that will be March’s story!!!


I bought this lovely new storage ottoman to keep my project in… love it!

Here is a picture of the storage ottoman with my best yarn helper Ziggy!

I hope you all have had a great Winter so far… Stay tuned early April for my 2023 Temperature Afghan 1st Season/March completion post and more of my life story!


Don’t forget to follow me on my social media sites for more fun!

FacebookTwitterInstagramMy CAL Facebook Group, and Pinterest

I hope you love this project!!  Make sure to share your finished projects on my Beatrice Ryan Designs Facebook Page and make sure to share around social media too! Why share?? Because it shares our Love of Crochet!!

Happy Crocheting!!

Elena


©Copyright 2023 Elena Hunt/Beatrice Ryan Designs.  All of my patterns and posts are my own work. Do not copy them in any way. If you want to share this information with someone, share the link to this post. If you want to share on your own blog, website or social media, then you may use the first photo in this post and link back to this post. You may not give away printed copies of this post. Thank you. This post may contain affiliate link

Crochet with Me!!! 7th Annual Mystery Winter Afghan CAL… Week 7!!!

Crochet with Me!!! 7th Annual Mystery Winter Afghan CAL… Week 7!!!



Welcome to Week 7 of the Crochet with Me!!! Mystery Winter Afghan Crochet Along!!! We are now over the hump and heading to the last half of the project.. This week the base of the afghan is going to be complete… So hang on to your hooks and lets get this thing going!

If this is your first Mystery CAL with me… Check out the past 6 years of the Winter Mystery Afghans and all of the other CAL’s we have done in the Crochet with Me tab at the top of the page! Each week I will post a easy section for you to complete, and in 12 weeks… You will have a fun, whimsical afghan! 

Don’t forget to add this project to your Ravelry favorites… Click Here!!


For the Material List and all of CAL details…

Click HERE!!! For Week 1 Instructions…

Click Here!!! For Week 2 Instructions…

Click Here!!! For Week 3 Instructions…

Click Here!!! For Week 4 Instructions…

Click Here!!! For Week 5 Instructions…

Click Here!!!! For Week 6 Instructions….


There are a few prizes involved in this years 2020 Winter Mystery Afghan CAL..

Grand Prize – There will be a $50 Amazon Gift Card for 1 lucky winner at the end of the CAL. The grand prize will be drawn on Sunday May 24th 2020. To be eligible, you must email a picture and permission by Friday May 22nd, 2020 to [email protected] showing your completed project. Entries will be numbered by the order they arrive and the number will be drawn using a random number generator.

Monday Treasure Hunt Weekly Prize – Each Monday starting March 2nd, 2020 a $10 Amazon Gift Card will be given away to one member in the Beatrice Ryan Designs C AL Group on Facebook. Each Monday, a post will be made explaining the rules to enter. The entry time will only last part of the day… so stay tuned in the group!

Congrats to Ravini B., last weeks Monday Treasure Hunt winner!!!


Here is my color line up… You can choose your colorway to be in any order you like… The way my eye liked my colors was from lightest to darkest… A~White B~Stone C~Sweet Pink D~Light Gray E~Cameo F~Pewter

Stitches:

  • St ~ Stitch
  • Sl St ~ Slip Stitch
  • Sk ~ Skip
  • Ch ~ Chain
  • Bl ~ Back Loop
  • Dec Sc ~ Decrease Single Crochet *Insert hook in next st, pull up loop, insert hook in next st, pull up loop, Yo and draw through all 3 loops on hook*
  • Sc ~ Single Crochet
  • Blsc ~ Back Loop Single Crochet
  • Dc ~ Double Crochet
  • Xst ~ X stitch *working over the next 2 stitches, sk st, dc in next st st, dc in previous sk st*

Instructions:

**Each week you will be repeating the blsc row 3 several times(in the color indicated for the row repeat) … Here it is so you don’t have to go back to week 1… 

Row 3:  Ch 1, turn, dec blsc over the next 2 sts, blsc in next 8 sts, *3 blsc in next st, blsc in next 9 sts, sk 2 sts, blsc in next 9 sts*, repeat *to* 9 more times, 3 blsc in next st, blsc in next 8 sts, dec blsc over the last 2 sts. =231 blsc


Change to Color B

Rows 112-115: Repeat Row3

Row 116: Ch 3(counts as dc), sk st, *make 4 Bl Xsts, 3 bldc in next st, make 4 bl Xsts, bl dc in next st, sk 2 sts, bl dc in next st*, repeat *to* 9 more times, make 4 bl Xsts, 3 bl dc in next st, make 4 bl Xsts, sk st, bl dc in last st. = 88 bl Xsts & 55 bl dc

Rows 117-120: Repeat Row 3 

Finish off

Change to Color A

Rows 121-130: Repeat Row 3 

Finish off

** The approx. length at the end of this week is 60″ laid flat not stretched

That’s it… you have completed week 7!! Meet me back here next Sunday for Week 8, more color, more fun stitching!!!


Don’t forget to follow me on my social media sites for more fun!

FacebookTwitterInstagramMy CAL Facebook Group, and Pinterest

I hope you love this project!!  Make sure to share your finished projects on my Beatrice Ryan Designs Facebook Page and make sure to share around social media too! Why share?? Because it shares our Love of Crochet!!

Happy Crocheting!!

Elena


©Copyright 2020 Elena Hunt/Beatrice Ryan Designs.  All of my patterns and posts are my own work. Do not copy them in any way. If you want to share this information with someone, share the link to this post. If you want to share on your own blog, website or social media, then you may use the first photo in this post and link back to this post. You may not give away printed copies of this post. Thank you. This post may contain affiliate links/ads. If you purchase something from a link in this post, I may be compensated.



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