Fixing Up Granny…

BEFORE (Big, Gaping Hole)

AFTER (No More Hole!)

Monday night my husband brought home a great big afghan from his work, a giant granny square of an afghan. He plops it in my lap and says, “S wants to know if you can you fix this?”

Whoa. I’ve never “fixed” a torn piece of work before, so my first thought was “NO!” But, I laid it out on the floor, and thought about how it was made. I know I can crochet this pattern, so why couldn’t I fix it? Then the softness of the afghan hit my brain receptors. Oh, I did not want to give this blanket back. It was obviously older and well used to be that soft. I could tell someone who has crocheted for a long time made it because the stitches were very open and loose. And they were right handed.

It’s been a long time since I crocheted anything right handed, and I’m not particularly ambidextrous. But the hole wasn’t THAT big, and the pattern was very basic. I was just short on yarn. Luckily, the owner didn’t try to clip the unraveled yarn. Since I didn’t know what kind of yarn was used to make the blanket in the first place, I knew I could use that. So off I went, right-hand crocheting with a smaller hook and improvising a little to get from one side of the hole to the other.

Voila! No more hole. The patch is totally apparent to me and to you since I’m including a before and after photo, but when I laid the blanket out for my husband to see he couldn’t tell where the patch was. And I didn’t tell him.

He gave it back to his co-worker yesterday and she was thrilled! For payment I get to find out what kind of silky yarn that was… *bliss*

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