A patriotic feeling

Our fingers were busily working on our veterans blankets today.

Barbara B. finished her feather and fan version of the colors of our flag.

Cinzia finished hers too using the diagonal blanket pattern. She crocheted two rows around the edge to keep it from rolling.

My blanket is about 90% done. I think one more band of red, then the blue, and a wide band of red to match the other end and it should be long enough to cover someone's lap and legs.

Janna took her inspiration from a book that is a collection of stitches for afghan knitting. I have the same book but I bought mine in the 1970's and hers is from the 1980's.

Jan A. held her colors together to get this great looking marled effect.

Carole's blanket is in the home stretch too so she'll be finished soon. The one thing we've all agreed on is that these blankets don't seem to be getting longer. I think it's a trick of the acrylic yarn. ;) The longer we knit, the shorter it gets. LOL!

Margaret's blanket has a good color thing going on.

And Dorah actually finished hers before the end of our meeting today. She is going to give it a good steaming to help it soften and lay flat.

Barbara K.'s afghan is almost completed too. I love to see all our different interpretations of the color theme.

The only person who didn't make a blanket is Maureen because she was away but she's busy finishing up her 1898 hat is a nice heather sage green color.

By next week we should have finished most of these blankets. We can't wait to lay them out and get a photo of all the lovely designs! Until then, keep those needles clicking.