While I don’t often wander into home decor design, when I do go there I thoroughly enjoy the change-up from my usual wearable crochet modus operandi.  The beauty part of designing afghans, for example, is that I don’t have to endure the agony of writing sizing for the patterns.  That fact alone is reason enough to visit home dec land more often. So when a friend invited me to contribute to her afghan book, I didn’t need to think twice.

This weekend, all of the contributing designers are helping to celebrate the release of Unexpected Afghans, by Robyn Chachula. I believe I speak for the entire group when I say what a pleasure it was to not have to size the patterns… oh, and how much fun it was to work with Robyn.

Robyn’s idea was to get each of us to design an afghan in our own unique style.  For me this meant seamless lace, the Exploded Pineapple Afghan:

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I have written previously about my relationship with pineapple crochet here. Very early in my career I realized that I loved creating pineapple designs so much that I was in danger of overdoing it. I began rationing my pineapple use.  But you have to ask yourself, how many pineapple projects are allowable in, say, a year of designs? Two per year seemed excessive, and I now limit myself to one a year.  So this afghan blows my quota for 2012. 🙂

Here’s the list of contributors to Unexpected Afghans, so you can see what the entire gang has to say about the book this weekend:

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