Have you ever heard about the curse of the Boyfriend Sweater? It’s a curse/urban knitting legend that states that if you knit (or crochet) your boyfriend a sweater, by the time the sweater is complete, he will no longer be your boyfriend. I personally have never made a boyfriend a sweater and, now that I’m married, don’t plan on knitting anything for my husband (he doesn’t get as excited about handmade gifts as I would like).
I did, however, crochet him an afghan the first year we were dating. Since this was made specifically with him in mind, it was extra long (he is 6’4″!) and I used colors he liked (greens and gray). I spent about two weeks while he was out of town working on this afghan. In the last seven years, he has consistently used this afghan every winter. He wraps himself up in it while laying on the couch and walks around the house with it draped over his shoulders. Every year that we take the blanket out he comments on how he can’t believe how warm it is.

This year when I pulled the blanket out, I noticed something frightful. The center of one of the squares had come undone! I didn’t feel like fixing it so I ignored the problem only to find my husband sticking his toe through the hole when he used the blanket. I finally decided that it needed to be fixed. And what a simple fix it was.  I found the tail of the original ring that the square had been crocheted around and pulled it out. I used a smaller crochet hook to pick up the loops that had fallen off the tail yarn. I pulled the tail yarn through the loops and then through the original know (that I had found and loosened). I tightened the know and there you have it. This blanket will live to see another winter.

Read more about guest blogger Andrea Sanchez.