Granny Square Guitar Afghan

Granny Square Guitar Afghan

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materials:
brown yarn
black yarn
white yarn (or background color of choice)
crochet hook
tapestry or yarn needle (only needed if you sew squares together or are embroidering the accents)

notes:
I have not actually made this afghan. The graph was designed at the request of a visitor to this website looking for a pattern to make a gift. Unfortunately, that also means that I don't know the yarn amounts.

Allow extra black yarn to either crochet or embroider the strings, bridge, and tuning pegs. Frets optional.

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pattern:
complete all squares using the traditional granny square and diagonal 2-color granny patterns.

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guitar body is done in brown
music notes and sound hole in black
background in white (or other color of choice)

join squares with method of choice

notes stems, tuning pegs, bridge and strings should either be embroidered on the surface of the afghan, or crocheted and attached as appliqué.
frets are optional

Yay! Laptop back!

Retail Hell

So, in order to properly introduce Wes to the world of gaming, we ran Retail Hell last night. I'm pretty sure he loved it, considering he wanted to play again as soon as we finished.

Liam (or Bill) and his group are playtesting today, so as soon as I get their feedback and get together with Liam about the art, we might finally get this thing published. I'm really hoping for in time for Halloween.

I should probably get in touch with Lil Mephisto at the Retail Hell.com website to see if he's still interested in this endeavor.

Also, I'm working on a second cookbook, sorta an almost-homemade kind of thing. Tricks for really cool box-mix based cakes. More on that as things come out of the oven.

With a little luck.

Hopefully, *crosses fingers* my files will be pulled from the Dell one day this week and I can actually get started on posted some patterns. Maybe I can even make that new patterns every month thing a reality!

I do have a few patterns waiting to be posted, but the downside of the site looking really good is that I can't really post anything without access to my templates. I know that sound like a huge cop-out, but there's a lot of code for that link bar and that sidebar, and unfortunately, grabbing the code from Tripod isn't that easy, either, because they embed a lot of crap into the site for their banner ads and stuff.

I feel bad about all of this, because there was a time when I would have hand-coded everything and all that code would still be living in the bad of my mind. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to Dreamweaver and the incredibly cool split-screen feature it has.

I know, I'm a nerd, but here's the thing. In Dreamweaver, with the split screen pulled up, as you type code, it displays the finished result. No such feature in FrontPage. I can switch between HTML-view and WYSIWYG editor, but you don't get that immediate correlation. You have to find what your code did.

It's really easy to find yourself giving up on hand-coding altogether in favor of the WYSISYG when it's a pain in the ass to see the effect of your code. Also, I've slacked really badly about keeping current with the HTML standard. I badly need a new book.

At any rate, hopefully, I'll have my files back this week. It would be great, because it will be something I can do. You know, keep me occupied while I have no car.

By the way, if you haven't heard, I think we've had it with the Corsica. It was never a pretty car and I never cared because it got me from Point A to Point B. After having it towed FOUR TIMES this year, I think it's safe to say I can no longer count on it getting me from A to B.

Like I've posted in a few other places, anybody know someone selling a reliable car for cheap?