I've waited almost two years to say "this is done"!

I started this afghan the summer of 2007 and it originally had four colors, plus the white. I decided that I really didn't like the other two colors with the blue and yellow, so I scrapped them. After completing about half of the squares, a comment from my grandmother made me decide that all of them had been done wrong, so I took them all out and re-did them. Long project made longer, but I do think it was worth the extra effort.

I set the entire project aside for our Fall 2007 out-of-state move, but pulled it out again for my last month of work. Between being out of state myself for two whole months of 2008, I managed to get all the yarn I had crocheted. But, after removing half of the colors, I knew it wouldn't be as big as I had wanted it, so I commissioned my sister to get some more yellow yarn while she was visiting family (our area has a poor selection of yarn choices) in September-October of 2008. It took awhile to discover that the yellow was discontinued. :-( My only choice was to just finish it as big as I could. A month of frenzied sewing, visiting friends and then Holidays 2008 once more left the afghan unfinished.

January 2009 dawned bright and early and the afghan was brought out to bask in the light and finally be finished. It had had too many moments of neglect and I wanted it done so that I could move onto other projects with a clear conscience. :-) Voila! After two months of working on lots of hand projects to take breathers from all the little ends being woven in, it was finished with much rejoicing last week!

And, if you read all that, kudos! :-)