Happy New Year Everyone!
Someone commented on Facebook that this reminded her of water with little brown pebbles. Another lady said the brown areas looked like little monkeys playing. I could see both. The yarn was a stripped yarn so I had no control with how the color pattern was going to play out.
I hope you all had a wonderful evening last night whether it was staying in at home or spending the evening out with friends and partying it up. I had a lovely evening with friends and family, enjoying good food, company and of course fireworks. The guys always have a blast lighting big crazy fireworks that they get from a fireworks store in the Florida Keys every year. Speaking of the Florida Keys, here are two gorgeous snaps from our afternoon down there last weekend. You could tell the Northerners were visiting and definitely enjoying the warm weather.
I finished up a very special project yesterday. It is a crocheted baby blanket. Did I mention a new Hobby Lobby opened right across the street from my house? That store is dangerous.... for my wallet that is. I want to buy everything! They have a fantastic selection of yarn. Of course I was there for other stuff and casually perused the yarn aisle when I saw this baby yarn. I fell in love. I don't know what it is about blue and brown, but I just love the color combination. I have never crocheted an afghan before so I gave it a go, trying out a new pattern I kept seeing all over my Facebook crochet groups called a Corner to Corner or C2C. It was so much fun. If any of you do crochet and would like the pattern, I highly recommend watching this You Tube Video. It is much easier to learn this pattern by watching it demonstrated than reading written instructions, at least for me it was.
Someone commented on Facebook that this reminded her of water with little brown pebbles. Another lady said the brown areas looked like little monkeys playing. I could see both. The yarn was a stripped yarn so I had no control with how the color pattern was going to play out.
I also did something else new. I lined it with a cozy flannel fabric that looked like clouds.
Since I don't know of any special baby who needs a blankie right now, I went ahead and listed this in my Etsy shop. Hopefully it will go to a good home.
Now onto the stitching progress! I've decided to go back to working on my rather long WIP list. I'm going to try something different this year. I'm going to have one small stitching project and one large stitching project going at a time. Every month I'm going to rotate the big projects so I don't get bored. That's my plan and I'm sticking to it.
My big project for the month:
Sunflowers in Summer by Country Cottage Needleworks:
That roof on the cottage is slowly coming along. I'll be happy when this is done. I really do love the design. It is so cheerful but it has so many little stitching details in it. I feel so slow working on it.
One more thing I have to share. I got myself a Christmas present.
I love Olaf from Disney's Frozen. He is the cutest Disney character they have had in a long time. Karen at Sew Much 2 Love had this as flash sale on Facebook one day. It was the sewing bag made by her with a matching Needle Minder and FOB from Gina's Fobs and Froggers.
He is my new stitching companion.
Thank you for visiting. I'm glad you all enjoyed my vacation pictures on my last post and a big thank you to the readers who helped me remember the name of the church we saw.
My wish to you all this New Year:
**Hugs and Love from Sunny Miami**
Jen
