Handmade
The wedding was wonderful, my cousin (once removed) was beautiful and everything a bride *should* be. She was the exact opposite of bridezilla.
The benefit of having relatives that get married on the other side of the country is that there is plenty of time on the plane to crochet. I made some pretty good progress on Lorenzo’s blanket…
Mick (the hubby) and I are heading back east (New Hampshire to be precise) tomorrow (Thursday) night so I am hoping to make a lot of progress on the blanket while squished into an airplane seat.
Sorry for the long absence, working full time is really…hard! Hard in a different way than college and law school were. While in school, I probably was putting more hours towards school, but they were spaced out throughout the day. I’d have a morning class, then a break, then another class, then I’d put in a few hours in the library before an evening class. But work is a whole ‘nother ball of wax. It’s 8-10 hours of constant focus. I feel exhausted when I come home. Okay, enough lame whining. I really love my job, so I don’t want to spend too much time saying negative things about it. On to crochet!
I’ve started working on my revised plan for Lorenzo’s blanket. Basically, what I decided to do was wavy stripes, alternating between white and one of the other four colors (dark blue, light blue, green and yellow). The wave is made by stitching two single crochets, two half-doubles, two doubles, two trebles, two doubles, two half-doubles and then two singles.
Here is a close up:
…is take some pictures of my cat.
I have come to terms with the fact that I will not be able to complete Lorenzo’s blanket according to the original plan and do have something else in mind. Since my crochet group meets on Wednesdays, I will try and get to work on the revised plan later this week. Basically, I plan on doing wavy stripes. Which will hopefully crochet up really fast…
I think my no-more-new-projects challenge is going badly. It sort of cramps my style (that being “start a lot of projects, finish only a few” 
). I decided to try a different color of Lorenzo’s blanket to see if that inspired me. It didn’t. I find doing granny squares to be kind of boring. I might change my design so that I can finish this project and not bore myself to death in the process.
The wife of a childhood friend of my husband is pregnant with her second child (and according to the ultrasound, her first son) so I thought he would be a good victim–err, I mean recipient–of my first granny square project.
Inspired by the Babette Blanket, I sketched out my idea. I liked the idea of using multiple different sized squares, but didn’t think I would have the patience to change colors as many times as Babette calls for. So instead I came up with the idea of doing circles inside squares, with the circle made entirely out of one color, and then squared with white yarn.
As you can see from the sketch, I originally planned to make the blanket out of yellow, orange, green and blue yarn. But when I went to my LYS I found this Lion brand Micro Spun yarn that is 100% acrylic and washable, but amazingly soft. They had a periwinkle blue, a royal blue, yellow, lime green and white (among other colors), so I made a split decision to go with the snuggly yarn instead of rigidly sticking to my original plan.
So far, I have made a few of the smallest, two-inch squares and one four-inch square. I also accidentally made one square with a white circle and a blue border (I shouldn’t crochet really late at night). I was going to rip it out, but I thought it might add a nice surprise to have one or two squares in the reverse color pattern, so I am letting the blue-bordered square stick around for the time being.
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