With the third and final yarn my Auntie sent me I crochet a scarf. Keeping count for the bobble stitch slowed me down and despite doing several rows a night I felt like it was taking forever. The spring sun is warm but the wind off the ocean is chilly keeping it in the 40's so I wore my newly finished scarf today.
In my adorable basket of crochet themed gifts was a pair of shiny wooden knitting needles. Little did my Auntie know that she had planted a seed of addiction. But I couldn't remember how to knit! Thank you YouTube...after a long search I found a tutorial on how to knit from someone I could understand and got to work knitting this scarf. The yarn was lovely to work with but I was very careful not wanting to slip a stitch having no idea how to fix that issue. There was enough yarn left over to make a crochet hat, but I had never made one before so I searched for an easy pattern on YouTube. It was stitching up too large so I decided to salvage it by continuing to make it larger turning it into a beret. Even though it's now March there's still plenty of chilly days left to wear and show off my newest projects.
My Auntie Christine got me three different kinds of yarn for my birthday. I made a shawl with this one, it was difficult to crochet with the size hook they suggested, but switching to a much larger hook solved the problem. I crochet three rows of single crochet then three rows of double crochet skipping every other stitch to give an open look (remembering to chain in place of the skipped stitch). To make the shape of a triangular shawl I decreased at the beginning of every row. I kept crocheting until the two balls I had were finished. My plan was to make myself a pretty shawl for the summer nights that get chilly here living near the water.
I hope my bloggy friends will send me photos of their "signs of spring". An eight foot deer fence was between me and these snow drops.
You don't have to be a gardener to have fun visiting your local nursery, back in the 1990's I couldn't resist their tiniest flower pots. I painted them using oil paint that came in small containers (just like the paint-by-numbers paint pots) I bought at a craft store, then sealed them with a coat of decoupage glue. I usually display them on a window sill with other decorated store bought flower pots.
My Auntie Christine knitted this scarf for me. It's ambition in life was to be a blanket, but it had very expensive tastes and therefore became a lovely comfy scarf instead. I will ask Christine if she remembers the pattern and put it on here at a later time.
Spring is almost here but besides the birds singing and our neighbors snow drops I haven't found anything to take photos of yet...until I discovered these two special little babies, I made sure they were warm and comfortable and hope that one day they will produce many more!
