Recognize my living room? No, I suppose you don’t. No one ever really comes here. Besides… the main feature here is the afghan I just made for (yes, really) myself. Yes! I made something for myself! Also for my husband, because he happens to love it.

The pattern is due to be published in September. It won’t look exactly like this as I’ve made some little improvements along the way.

It’s patterned after the one I made for my daughter uh… couple years ago, I think? This time I chose colors that went nicely in my living room, but I did try to preserve the theme, as I’d already thought to name it “Lake House Afghan” (as opposed to the “Beach House Afghan“, and the “Wedding Bouquet Afghan”, which I’m never gonna publish, because I just remembered how much I hate testing. So never again. Really) In any case, I switched out 2 of the blues for mine, in favor of what I figured was a sandy color, and a different, non-grayish, blue.

I feel good about the wrong side looking pretty OK. In fact, the Diamond Stripe has a surprisingly attractive WS. Who knew?

I’m adding some appliques to the one stripe where I’m unhappy with the WS. I can take my time with those, though. With no ball of yarn hanging off, we’re free to use the blanket before those are done.

That’s it. I just wanted to show this puppy off.