Klokkestreng Afghan

$200.00

My maternal grandmother made many of the afghans still in use in our household today, as well as at least one blanket. She primarily used the afghan stitch and its variants, but did some decorative stitching on some of the wide, otherwise plain, panels on at least two of her afghans. In her later years she volunteered at her church, piecing together and attaching individually crocheted squares to form patchwork blankets, and worked on a few smaller afghans with my mother’s assistance.

This panel is a single unit from what will be a full-sized afghan. The base was made using the afghan stitch, as my grandmother did, but the decorative elements utilize the “star stitch” and a pattern drawn from the klokkestreng tradition, instead of a cross-stitch and a pattern pulled from needlepoint. The overall-approach, linking together multiple panels of varying stitch pattern and decoration, remains the same between generations.

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