USMC Afghan for a charity raffle

A major project is underway and it is near and dear to my heart.  I am working on designing/knitting an afghan with the Marine Corp emblem centered and the words Semper (left) Fidelis (right) worked in seedstitch.  This is along the lines of a wedding afghan.  ALTHOUGH… I have never worked an afghan with intarsia.. OK I DID.. once and it was not good.  I did a lot of intarsia though this summer and fall knitting Doggy sweaters to help out a friend.  They were cool.  This will be ? less difficult I hope.  SO.. my next podcasts… will be how I deal with this latest challenge.  I am totally looking forward to it and any input I receive from the folks reading this. 

 I have to start out getting the graphic and a chart.  I have the pattern plan.  I used Knitware so I guess I’ll talk about How I used Knitware to do that portion first.  I’ll share the pattern freely in the end.  I figure anyone who wants to knit for the Marine Corps is in my book as earned a freebie… oh wait everything here is free!  (SO FAR!)  Keeping it that way unless I really invest time and money into something soooo…… you’ll know when I do because I’ll apologize profusely for actually charging for something.  Its OK though … some things no one gets for free.  Like lunch.  I am happy to do what I can freely and since this is being freely given…  I will encourage others to knit it freely.

 Besides… who doesn’t want to support our soldiers?  Young or old?  My son is a Marine currently in Hawaii (so far not in the middle east) and I do!

So herein begins a theme for the next few posts.  Which may be interrupted because of the Fingerlakes Machine Knitting Seminar that happens in late April… of course I might be done by then right?

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