AFGHAN

I have a dear friend who got me started again with yarn.

I had taught myself when I was a newlywed.

Most of my work at that time was not good at all and I gave up.

With her encouragement, I started back up again about three years ago.

Lisa, my friend, is an avid yarn lover.

I was thinking what I could give her for Christmas

and I thought an afghan would be nice.

This particular afghan took me about four months to complete.

It was much easier than I had expected.

Here are the directions to making this afghan.

• Chain 171 loosely.
• Row 1:  DC in fourth chain from hook and in each chain across.  (3 skipped chains count as first dc): 169 dc
• Row 2:  (Right side):  chain 3 (counts as first dc, now and throughout), turn; dc in next dc, work popcorn, (dc in next 3 dc, work popcorn) across to last 2 dc, dc in last 2 dc:  42 popcorns.
• Row 3:  chain 3, turn; dc in next dc and in each st across: 169 dc.
• Row 4:  chain 5 (counts as first tr plus ch 1), turn; skip next dc, tr in next dc, (ch 1, skip next dc, tr in next dc) across: 85 tr.
• Row 5:  chain 3, turn; dc in each ch-1 sp and in each tr across: 169 dc
• Row 6-67:  Repeat rows 2-5, 15 times, then repeat rows 2 and 3 once more.  Finish off.