Tree of Life

[lydy]

When I first started making afghans again, I found this pattern on the web. I decided tag it, but wait for a bit, as I wasn't sure my skill level was quite up to it. When I saw the pattern, I instantly thought of Peg Kerr/Ihringer. Peg doesn't seem to so much have a totem animal as a totem plant. So I made this afghan for her.



I had to invent a border, since I purely hated the border that the pattern came with. It was supposed to be leaves, but if you did the pattern, they didn't look much like leaves. So, I did this instead.



They kinda sorta looked like leaves. And I really liked the idea of leaves.

Here's a closeup of one of the tree sets:



And finally, here's Ninja on the trees, because Ninja:



I gave the afghan to Peg tonight (after laundering it to remove cat dander). She seemed to like it quite a bit. I'm very happy with how this one came out.

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I really like this one, too.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. And utterly perfect for Peg. Go, you.

[naomikritzer]

Oh, that's beautiful. And I agree, perfect for Peg.

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

Now you just need to do one like that with dancing baby Groot...

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

That is totally amazing! Wow.

[jiawen]

Very, very cool.

Lovely!

[eileenlufkin.livejournal.com]

This one is lovely too.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Charming and lovely!

K.

[cowfan.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! Are the trees post stitches worked as you go? How did you do the leaf border?

[lydy.livejournal.com]

The trees are, indeed, post stitches.

For a description of how I did the leaves, check my Ravelry pattern notes, or I can email it to you. I'm lydydrew on Ravelry. I

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Just gorgeous, and so appropriate!