Ok blog world...here we go!!

Sorry this is my first blog posting and hopefully I won't be completely boring!  I really only started this blog as a way to keep track of my yarn projects, being able to share them with friends and family, and add notes to projects I've done.  I'm not sure I've ever done a project without modifying the pattern, most of the time significantly!  So having a place to go back to and see what I did to some of these makes it a whole lot easier than trying to read my chicken scratch!  That is if I even remebered to write anything down in the first place!

Currently I'm working on gifts for Christmas.  Really I have too many to do in the next 24 days that I don't need to be on here starting a blog but isn't that always the way?  I've already completed a number of projects people have asked me to make for their loved ones for Christmas so now I'm concentrating on mine.

 My son who is 10 is a die hard Yankees fan.  Last year I made a very easy V-stitch afghan out of Lion Brand Homespun that everyone has fallen in love with, including my son.  He's asked for one with Yankee colors for Christmas.  Well as usual I get an idea of what I want it to look like in my head and then begin the search online for how to do it! I wanted it to be different than the normal v-stitch.  I wanted it to have the NY Yankee logo on it.  I originally looked at attempting a Tunisian stitch for it but with the size of the blanket it would have to be done in sections and I didn't want that so I looked at other things like how to  crochet with a graph.  I found a NY graph that I can use but I wasn't happy with the "how to's" I found online.  So I came up with my own pattern!  This is a first for me and I'm really pleased with how it's going!  I'll post progress pics soon since I know I haven't been good at keeping notes of how I'm doing it!  And again that is my purpose for creating a blog in the first place! 

Here's a pic of the original V-stitch blanket.  The pattern can be found at LionBrand.com