The Arrrr-gyle Project

I always do something handmade for my guy when his birthday, Christmas, and Valentines day come around. I came across this very inspired Arrrgyle Afghan.
She turned a graph from a knit sock pattern into pure awesome!

I really wanted to make this but I had never tried the afghan stitch before. I was assured that I should learn the stitch, that it would be easy. So after some online instructions it seemed simple enough. Then I remembered I would have to know how to change colors too. That took a little bit of time for since I wanted to make sure I could get a smooth color transition. I hooked away and decided I need a little more help...to YouTube I went. I was saved after watching a couple of videos and I felt confident enough to take on at least one panel of the Arrrgyle. I was highly motivated since I knew my guy would love it.
I managed to take some "in progress" pictures.

I was looking around for inspiration one day on the Internet.
I did 2 rows of single crochet in black as a foundation.

I tried to keep those yarn bobbins nice and neat, that was pretty easy when there were only 7. As you can see, it got kind of crazy, at one point, I have 13 bobbins. I really didn't want cross over yarns.

Almost done and I am really happy with the results. If any up you have ever worked on an Afghan before, you will know that they have a tendency to curl. I was not cleaver enough to add stitched to keep this from happening. So, most of the pictures show the panel pinned to my carpet.

Here is the completed Panel

I have included a picture of the back. I tucked my tails early on but tired of that quickly.

I was surprised to find the finished panel ended up smaller then I thought it would. It was 17"x12" give or take an inch. I would love to make this again and I am sure I will. Everybody I know wants one and I couldn't have don't it with out those 2 Very inspired lady's.

My sewing machine is on the fritz at the moment and I need it to finish his gift but as soon as I get that back up, I will post pics of the 100% compete project.

Toodles