Crocheted Afghan

December of 2018, my mother-in-law asked me if I would complete a family project on her behalf. Her mother, my husband's maternal grandmother, made crocheted afghans for each of her grandchildren, but had passed before she could finish the one for my youngest brother-in-law. 

I laid it out on the floor like this December of 2019 to use as a reference when I crocheted them together!

Remember the vintage leftover yarn I used for the orange and yellow baby blanket? This is it!!

I retrieved the tub of yarn and had a quick lesson in crocheting granny squares, and got to work. Grandma Wright had completed two dozen squares, and I sewed a little charm into the corner of each one so that it was known which ones were Grandma's. 

It took me two years to finish all the squares and put them together, but the last six months were just waiting for yarn to be stocked in my shade ("eggshell") due to the general run on yarn from COVID-19. 

Cost: about $15 for yarn. Made good use of every other scrap of yarn... I had no pattern so I just crocheted squares until I was out. Only had two squares of brown left over from the whole thing!