Wow, I have to rename it; We've been calling it the 25 year afghan. But, it's going to be 30 sometime this next fall.
Holey, moley. It was started about the time we met, started dating, fell in love....... My theory has been that it started with our relationship, and if it's ever finished, so might be the relationship. ???
At about 20 years, my DH and DD1 pulled it out of storage and draped in on the couch in it's unfinished state and started using it anyway. The colors include warm brown, burgundy, honey/tan, and yellow. And, yes a bright orange that I had bought in rug yarn that I had to "un-ply" to get the right weight to match the others. The brown is sport weight held 2 together. It's mostly good old Red Heart acrylic worsted that's wearing like iron. The colors came from a variegated yarn in sunset colors that should eventually be the edge. The pattern was crochet granny-hexagons that started dark in the center on some and light in the center on the others. The original pattern was for a "throw" size, but I had enough yarn at the beginning to make a King Size Bedspread! (And I lived in the college dormitory) The poor UFO survived several moves over the years, but parts got stored and misplaced away from each other. At one point, my DH took everything he could find in to a coworker and offered to pay her to finish it for me ! She refused and gave him a lecture on the evils of trying to control another's OCD ADHD behaviors. So, he came home, put the funky shaped partially done UFO on the couch and it has been there ever since. Except when it's a tent, or a castle, in the washer / dryer, or wrapped around a kid and or a puppy. Some of the unattached hexagons show up as potholders every now and then.
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