I finally got pictures of my sisters Christmas present! This was my 'big project' all last year, and the reason why I didn't have many UFO's through Oct. and Nov.

It was actually started in July. It's beginnings were rather harmless really. I wanted to try out the lace samplers in the 4th Barbara Walker treasury, I tried crochet cotton and size 2 needles, but then I decided that if I used size 8 needles and some pakucho organic cotton, I could make 6 squares or so and give it to my sister as a little afghan... somehow along they way 6 became 9... 9 became 12... and then it was decided that I needed a border, maybe something celtic-ish to go with the lace samplers. Ya know, like maybe 15 ft of cabled border...

The final measurements came to around 3.5 x 4.5 feet.

I finished it Christmas eve... I was weaving in ends in my grandma's guest bedroom while the kids watched a DVD and bounced on me. I lost count of all the ends after 50something, adding up all the balls of yarn I used and the stuff for the seaming, I think it was somewhere in the ball park of 80-100 ends.