MOD SOCK MONKEY CHEVRONS LAPGHAN PATTERN

 

I finished MOD Sock Monkey Lapghan last night, that I started working on the evening of December 11^th – the pattern actually works up pretty quick; I was slow due to breakfasts, lunches, brunches, and running around town with friends in town for holiday shopping 😉

The finished Lapghan measures 42-inches wide, and 48-inches long. This is not a full-sized afghan ... just a shortie, meant to be laid over your lap and knees for warmth.

MOD Sock Monkey Chevrons Lapghan

This pattern uses simple sc, throughout.

If you find it difficult to keep the increases and decreases straight in line, use a different colored length of yarn as a marker and carry it up the pattern, moving it up as you work it up: you will need 13 ‘markers’.

MOD SOCK MONKEY LAPGHAN PATTERN

Materials: Worsted weight yarn – 1 skein EA of Red Heart Super-Saver Jumbo yarn in colors of Aran, Red, & Gray; Size G hook; tapestry needle; scissors.

PATTERN: With Aran, ch 238.

Row 1: 1 sc in 2^nd ch from hook, 1 sc in each of next 6 ch, *3 sc in next ch, 1 sc in each of next 7 ch, skip 2 ch, 1 sc I each of next 7 sc; repeat from * and end last repeat with 1 sc in each of 6 ch, skip 1 ch, 1 sc in last ch.

Rows 2 thru 4: Turn – skip first st, *1 sc in back loop of each of 7 sts, 3 sc in back loop of next st, 1 sc in back loop of each next 7 sts, skip 2 sts; repeat from * and end last repeat with 1 sc in back loop of each next 6 sts, skip 1 st, 1 sc in back loop of last st. Drop White & attach Red; ch 1, turn. DO NOT CUT YARN … you will carry MC yarn up the backside of lapghan as you work it and pick it up to be worked with each alternating MC stripe. Attach new color. When changing colors, always draw the new color through the last loop on hook before turning work.

MOD SOCK MONKEY LAPGHAN color sequence.

Carry the yarn along the backside.

Rows 5 & 6: With Red, repeat rows 1 & 2; drop red & attach gray; ch 1, turn.

Rows 7 thru 14: With Gray, repeat rows 1 & 2; drop gray & attach red; ch 1, turn.

Rows 15 & 16: With Red, repeat rows 1 & 2; drop red and attach aran.

Repeat the alternating sixteen rows stripe process of yarn changes (**4 R Aran – 2 Rows Red – 8 Rows Gray – 2 Rows Red** for pattern) until lapghan measures 48-inches in length from start.

There will be 9 ct. Aran stripes; and 8 ct. Gray stripes… with Aran being the ending stripe. Cut White, and tie off. Neatly weave in loose ends.

JOY

Joy resonates in my life – it always has since I was saved in 1965: joy is Elohei’s grace in my life.

No matter what life throws at me, I always have a laugh in me that buoys my spirit with feelings of pleasure and happiness; no matter what. Joy has been my saving grace – that emotion that makes life worth living in the moment because it recaps our internal center; feelings of comfort, gratitude, and worth.

Joy is what has carried me through all the seasons of my life. I was thinking about that this morning on my drive over Delameter to Castle Rock for exercise class. As I drove, three songs came over the airwaves that added holiday ambiance … and a text message, too, that led to making a lunch date tomorrow with a friend 😉

Tom Petty: ‘It’s Christmas Again’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESv6nBWCSu4)

Bing Crosby & David Bowie Christmas Song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kfdEyV3RQ)

James Taylor: ‘Deck The Halls’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D23FudHtecQ)

A joy filled text – tomorrow with be a joyous get together.

Leaving Castle Rock an hour later, I decided to drive over Hazel Dell Road to Keenager’s – I’m glad I did both 😊

Driving over Hazel Dell Road, I laughed when I saw that Charlie Brown and Snoopy has been exchanged for a fat and fluffy snowman in the hallmark farm truck that has been parked in the upper end of a farm field near the roadway. Someone else has been bitten by the Joy Bug 😉

I was still smiling with Holiday Spirit when I came upon road work a bit further on down the road.

Hazel Dell Road joy-filled humor.

Hazel Dell road work.

I burst out laughing when I got to Keeneger’s, and saw the table piece Judy had set in the center of {my} table (I have sat at this table for as long as I have come here – everyone dubbed it “Val’s Table”; 😊) … the table piece is appropriate. I don’t dress like a Plain Jane anymore. I laughed because I do have a red leather purse. I do have black ankle boots, a pair of fur trimmed boots (though not zebra print), cheetah print ankle boots, and snake skin flat shoes; I have a black {fur} sweater, a black fur hat, a red bead necklace, and I have been known to wear funky eyewear: and I am wearing makeup more frequently.

Judy was pleased with herself to have “represented” me so well 😉

Appropriate ... I'm becoming a clothes horse; LOL. Diane in background.

All the tables (about 12 of them) had a different table piece, and she told me she got them at a thrift store in Vancouver. I now have that address in my address book, and will be checking it out next time I get that way. I love dinking around in thrift stores, and now I have all the time in the world to do that.

Our guest speaker this afternoon was Andrew; I was glad to hear him, again. His message was timely, to the point, and it spoke to my spirit on several levels.

Andrew didn’t speak specifically on joy – but Joy was the underlying emotion.

I was glad I decided to go today.

I always like Andrew's message.

On my way back home via Coal Creek Road, I joyously shouted ‘Hallelujah!’ when I drove past the turnout where abandoned vehicles and campers have been torched by pyromaniacs. It has now been cleaned up and blocked off.

Bitching and forcing the city officials to do something about the crime wave out this end of Longview had finally paid off.

I’ve been pretty vocal over the months with city official shaming … I am not the only voice that has been heard, but I do feel a strong sense of validation concerning this recent activity; this is a bit too close to where I live. That the blatant criminal/arsonist activity has been allowed to happen for months without city intervention, is beyond ridiculous.

I don’t like to be a bitch – but if that is what it takes to light a fire under city officials' lazy butts, I can stand on the pitcher’s mound and wind up 😉

Thank the Lord! Bitching has finally got the City minions to shut this crime-ridden area down.

Thank You Yeshua! The arsons were too close to home.

Yesterday was rough.

Today was a joyous recoup.

And tonight was relaxing 😊

Cheese Spread & Ritz; the work on the MOD Sock Monkey Lapghan.

CHEESE SPREAD RECIPE: https://jeastofeden.blogspot.com/2019/12/cheese-spread-recipe.html