It hasn't been the coldest of winters. A couple of weeks ago we actually put a crocheted blanket on each of the girls' beds for a little extra warmth around dawn. It is very satisfying to see something you've made yourself warming and enfolding your little ones.
The granny square rug was made for our bed and occasionally ends up there but is more often found on the couch over the TV audience. I found the squares a little tedious by the end although I avoided hours of joining together by using the method where you crochet the last row (blue in this case)to the next square. So it gets joined as you go, a much less onerous task.
It was time to go back to the stripes although this time they are not zig zag ripples. This one is for one of the boys. It is not quite as long as I'd like it but can be used in the meantime between stages because it only needs one stitch to start again. By crocheting in the ends as you go there is no finishing off at all.
It could do with a couple of rows all around to edge it but I'm not sure in what colour and it doesn't feel like it is finished yet. There are only two more to go till each child has one.
It feels like a little trick I'm playing on my body. You can't get sick again because I haven't finished all five blankets. That might mean I'll never quite finish the last one....just in case!
Now to finish off this post a little tight pants humour to set the day right. My brother showed me this long ago and you may have already seen it but it makes my heart sing! Number 3 Child did the little tight pants dance and song out to the car yesterday and will do anything I say if I start to do it myself in, for example, a school car park.
Rock-n-roller, Ayotollah!
Your crocheted blankets are so festive and colorful . . . I love them and they look so pretty on your children's beds. Just as we are looking forward to autumn, you are looking forward to spring. I love visiting in the coldest part of winter and seeing your sunshine and flowers.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful week.
Your blogging sister, Connie :)
Thanks, Connie!Our winter has been fairly non- existant. In fact this temperature is about my idea of a perfect summer. I dread the real one. Way too hot for me!
DeleteThe amazing technicolor blankets. So joyful!
ReplyDeleteI've got quite a few tight pants. I just need to learn to do the dance.
I'm sure you could rock the dance of the tight pants, Steve!
DeleteThanks for the giggle Annie.
ReplyDeleteYour rugs are beautiful and so was the song. I'll be trying that one out in the kitchen cooking bacon in the morning.
Can hear it now: "Muuuummm, can't you hear yourself"?
Do remember to include the bottom wiggle. They are horrified at it!
Deletehaha, cool 'tight pants'! I sneakily watched it at work hehe
ReplyDeletenice...I dont think I will dare show my kids this video , I will never hear the end of it, just the aint got time for that video....( which I am still hearing )
ReplyDeleteLove your blankies Annie, the colour is just a beautiful riot. We are still lapsing into that narwhal song so there is no way the boy is watching this! mel x
ReplyDeleteTonight when you are sleeping it will slip back into your consciousness.
DeleteJason might pull off some nice tight pants moves too, no doubt!
That didn't sound right, sorry.
DeleteThat little ditty was just what I needed this morning. I will go about my day envisioning all the people that bother me "in tight pants" and nothing can get me down. You Drinking my Saki, Kemosabe?
ReplyDeleteHEY! Reader 3! So nice to hear from you. That is such a cracker quote, is it not???
DeleteAnnie I love your blankets and hoe to fill my own home with colourful blankets too! Inspiring :) x
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the other day, looking at an international weather forecast, that the temps in Queensland looked like summer here! But every child needs a permanently unfinished crochet blanket, it's a rite of passage of some kind I swear. I still have mine somewhere, 40+ years on!
ReplyDeleteAnnie your blankets are amazing! I really can't believe you have made 4 decent sized blankets. They'll be cherished forever.
ReplyDeleteAs for the song, I will definitely be showing the Kids the clip tomorrow because it sure beats the one that is currently stuck in their (and us grown-ups) heads - "Dumb ways to die". It's a safety campaign, and the tune is annoyingly catchy! Mel xxx
Yes I know the one. They like to sing it in the car which makes me very nervous!
DeleteI need to start another blanket now or I'll nibble all my nails off!