My aunt sent me this picture of an afghan my great-grandma Sadie made for her. It’s a simple five-round granny square with a picot border. I wish I could better see how the squares are put together, but that’s okay. I suspect this is just a scrap afghan, with yarns left over from other projects.
It’s hard for me to put into words how this makes me feel. Sadie is my great-grandmother on my dad’s side. I learned to crochet from my mom’s mom. I know this is just because crocheting was ubiquitous. It’s not weird for people on both sides of your family to have done it. But it makes me feel something. Like here is a message that works on a level beyond words and at that level, I am reading it, and then I have to wait to see how it might translate into something I can make sense of.
Like I am doing something we do.
And you see that square that looks like a campfire? I want to make a whole afghan like that someday.
My aunt told me that my dad and his younger brother didn’t get afghans. I wonder if that’s because there was a certain age she gave them at (I know my grandma, her daughter, gave us all something she needlepointed at a certain age, though I can’t remember what age that was) and she died before my dad and uncle reached that age?
Anyway, it makes me glad I crocheted an afghan for my dad last year.
Tiny Cat Pants 
As soon as my eyes went back to the picture to find the campfire square, I saw it right away! It shines like a beacon on that afghan. One of my grandmothers was a quilter and one crocheted. I have quilts and afghans from them and they are my most treasured things. Thanks for sharing this and pictures of the ones you create.