I started it March 12, 2013 and finished it today. So around two weeks. (I just got over the flu, (which was horrible), but now I can say it was worth the time in bed!) YAY!

YAY! I finished at last!



This is a filet crocheted afghan using an Elizabeth Hiddleson pattern.



Here's the back. You can see the seems where I joined the squares and the center panel pieces.
The hardest part was making those two middle panels. In order to have the crochet stitches go the same way as the squares, it had to be worked up width-wise instead of the longer length, (which would have been SO MUCH easier!) In fact, for the sides of the afghan, I just went ahead and did those along the length of the afghan to save my sanity!) LOL


I altered a couple of the animals that I thought looked a little weird on the graphs. The rabbit's head I made come to a pointed nose. (The graph was so icky! It kinda had a double cheek thingy going on.) I also made the cat's nose come to a point. (The graph looked like one of those flat-faced cats, (like Crookshanks!),  which didn't seem to look right in profile like this.) And also the elephant was too small for it's square. So I added a mound and some clouds to fill in the square.

I liked these squares because each one was finished with only one ball of Cebelia thread. Not having to buy two. YAY!!

The border is done with Coats and Clark Old Fashioned thread in ecru. Both threads are size 10. The crochet hook I used was a 7 (1.65 mm) steel Boye.

Happy Easter everyone!

Yay! They look great!
I recognized them right away.
Great job!!!!
(You just gotta make a Peter/Micky pillow now!!!! They can't ever be split apart!)
 

I think this is a great idea because the plastic-y ones from the store are way-to scratchy. I can't use those ever.
But this one you've made with cotton yarn, now that's skin-friendly!
YAY!  Nice job!

I love how this flower pattern has a groovy atomic look to it. The bright neon colors against the black also make the pattern pop out at you.
Great design! 

I just love this! It's so fun and really special.
Great job!

[I really love this. I think I would need a few more color panels to accommodate my, .... girth. LOL!!!! (Or else have to make them much wider!) Love the colors too and blocking them around with black makes them pop. Awesome job!]

I really love this.
I think I would need a few more color panels to accommodate my, .... girth. LOL!!!! (Or else have to make them much wider!) 
Love the colors too and blocking them around with black makes them pop. Awesome job!

Hi Selena!

The sweater pattern has graphs for the bongo drums, music symbols, (and the Mexican dancers too but I didn't use them).
So I just tunisian crocheted the designs instead of knitting. If you don't tunisian crochet, you could probably make the sweater by single stitching and changing colors throughout.

I'm not good at that because you have to constantly flip over your project after each row and read the graph left-right / right-left etc. Plus with the color changes you would have loose ends all over the place in both front and back of your garment that you would have to weave in and hide. But some people are great at that.

Another option would be like you suggested - just making the whole sweater in single crochet with the background color and then cross stitching the design overtop. If it was made in wool and you made it large enough to "felt" by washing it afterwards and drying it in the dryer, the top stitches probably wouldn't be so noticeable as being only stitched over the crochet. But you'd have to be really sure to make it big enough or you might end up having a really awesome doll sweater!    Wool yarn is pretty expensive too so it would be a sad day indeed!

About the skeleton pattern, I found that super cool graph on a graph pattern-making site. I think I listed it in my first post on here. Some talented person made it and it was posted with a lot of other finished graphs from folks. I'm not sure how long the finished graphs are posted on that site before they delete them.

I have found a lot of great graph patterns this way. The people who make them are usually young girls (like teens to twenty-year-olds.) (This is only my guess judging from the subject matter of many of the graphs. For example; rock bands I've never heard of, Twilight-related characters or sayings, video games, anime type characters, popular movies, etc.) There's usually something in the pages of finished graphs for everyone. The graphs can be used for anything you can think of. Cross stitch, needlepoint, or making beaded bracelets. (That's a wonderful art that a lot of people are getting into. Some can be so detailed it's just amazing!)

But since I didn't make the skeleton graph myself, I could never sell it. And who knows where the person who graphed it got the image or idea. They might have taken the skeleton from someone else's design and just made it into a graph for their own personal use.

The Beehive bongo pattern is from probably from the 50's or 60's. I don't think that's old enough to be in public domain yet. Does anyone know about that?

Yay! I'm so happy to have made this list!  (Even though it's my big back-side that's on the front photo.) LOL!!!! 

Featured on the Craftster Facebook page?! Awesome, rackycoo!  Thank you!!!

"I love that it has sort of a bohemian look..."

This made me so happy to read, alwaysinmyroom, because I actually really AM Bohemian, (of Czechoslovakian heritage, that is). 
My maiden name was Jirasek.

Thanks guys! You're all so nice!