C2CJAYG Project Update

After all my complaining and finishing the second skein of the base color, I find manufacturing issues way less than 5% of the total skein yardage.  In the industry where I have vast experience 5% was acceptable but irritating to the end user.  Without knowing the machinery and product flow through the process can't really tell what a specific issue could cause -- small sections (about dc length at a time) thick and thin yarn nor why I had a big section of white in the middle of the skein, the rest was okay.  So my complaints are of a normal end user but probably within an acceptable range for yarn standards,

Anyway, project going forward at the speed of a racing turtle (slightly faster than a racing snail).  But making good progress considering time limitations.

Crochet On!

Crocheted Baby Afghan

We found out the baby will be a boy over the weekend.  Certainly glad I added the blue yarn.  This is double strand - diagonal block (C2C).  Body measures 32 inches square.  Need to measure yarn available before starting edging, but think I'll have enough for a round of extended single crochet, a round of extended double crochet and a rice final round.

Really happy with it.  The colors and texture make a really nice looking article.  Picture isn't very good, next one I'll do where there is different lighting, hopefully that'll show the colors better.

Baby Afghan Update and cost calculation

After battling pneumonia for a little over a week finally picked my hooks up a couple of days ago.  Got approximately half of my yarn used for the baby afghan so started decreasing.  Wanted to be sure I had enough to finish and put an edging on it.  Yarn Chicken not an option!!!!!


Am real happy with the diagonal block (C2C) pattern for this project.  Gives some texture and the yarn colors flow nicely.  Picture doesn't do it justice, however.

Will be allocating my crochet time between this and 2 other projects for the next few days or so.

As I mentioned before was working on a cost calculation to share.  Lost it a couple of times -- didn't save!  But have the shell done.  Image below is the basic shell, will be expanding with appropriate labeling and calculations.  

Some items I don't see mentioned in cost discussion, sales tax and mileage (special trip/across town as part of another trip) miles and IRS 2019 mileage reimbursement rate. For this I just made up a sales tax rate (I don't have it in Oregon) and used roundtrip miles special trip to get yarn for that calculation.  Yarn stats made up for this purpose also.

Snapshot of the shell:  As you can see sales tax and mileage add about 2 cents per yard to the cost.  Mileage is significant at 58 cents per mile, as you can see if I make a special trip to town to get 4 skeins of yarn at 5 dollars each (20 total), mileage is $23.20 and this would be the cost whether I purchased one skein or 100 skeins, doing this for 1 skein would raise the cost for the skein from 5 dollars to 28.20 (not including tax) but purchasing 4 skeins the cost per skein would be 5.80 for a total of 10.80 per skein  (not including tax). Hope to have a spreadsheet available to share within the next few weeks.