Off The Hook Ombre Lush Afghan

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• Lion Brand Off the Hook Ombre (Art. #534)
• Lion Brand Yarn Skein, #605 Greenery (3)


• MEASUREMENTS: About 40" x 63"

DIRECTIONS:

NOTE: There are two ways to prepare for the project. One way is to separate each skein of yarn into the different five shades of color by cutting the yarn between the shades and winding each shade into a separate ball. Then when making the afghan, you can use all of the darkest shade from the three balls, then all three balls of the next shade, and so on until all shades were used.
The second way is to make your afghan by just using the balls of yarn without dividing them into shades. This will create a striped afghan rather than a shaded afghan.

Pull out one end of yarn and count out 63 loops. You'll be working on just 60 loops. This length of 60 loops will be the beginning of your afghan, the other 3 loops are beginning yarn tail and will be secured later.
Lay this length of 63 loops onto a flat surface, with the end of the yarn on your right hand side.
Tip: This yarn is designed so that the loops stay in place - you can set the afghan down at any point and the loops won't come undone.
Check to be sure that all loops are facing upwards and that the loops aren't twisted.
Now you'll be working in rows across the length of loops. The yarn that's coming from the yarn ball is called the working yarn.
Hold the working yarn behind the length of loops. With your thumb and index finger, reach through the first loop on the right hand side, reaching from front through to back, and pull the next loop from the working yarn through the first loop.
Row 1: Working across the length of loops from right to left, continue to pull the next loop of working yarn through the next loop on the length of loops until you have pulled up 60 loops.
Row 2: Working from left to right, with the working yarn in the back (do not turn the work), pull up a loop in each loop.
Row 3: Move the working yarn to the front. Working from right to left, and reaching through from back through to front, pull up a loop in each loop.
Row 4: Working from left to right, with the working yarn in the back, pull up a loop in each loop.
Row 5: Working from right to left, with the working yarn in the back and reaching through from front to back, pull up a loop in each loop.
Row 6: Repeat Row 4.
Rows 7-105: Repeat Rows 3-6.

FINISHING OFF LOOPS
Now you'll need to finish off your loops. Drop the working yarn. Working in the same direction as the last row you made, pull the second loop through the first; pull the third loop through the second; pull the fourth through the third - and so on across to the end of the row.
Now you're back at the side with working yarn. Carefully snip the remaining loops off the working yarn tail. Pull working yarn through the last loop and knot.
With your fingers, weave the yarn ends into the loops of the afghan.