Ten Years?!?!?

 Wow....it's been 10 years (almost exactly) since I've last posted here. Does anyone even write blogs anymore? Ah, well, even if no one writes or reads them anymore, I'll still add to this. It can be for me; a reminder of who I was at different times. Like a digital time capsule.

I've been away from knitting and crocheting for a number of years. During that time, I had dabbled a bit in cross stitch, sewing, jewelry making, watercolor, drawing, etc. My daughter has just gotten me back into crochet (still not knitting), and though it's only been a month, I have a number of projects started and already a couple of blankets completed. It's been the perfect stress reliever at a very difficult time. 

The below is the first finished project of this new crochet age. I made it for Bau who is returning back to the US this week. He is on dialysis and always seems to be cold, so I thought this would be a nice little thing to help keep him warm while he watches his Indian serials on TV.

The pattern for this blanket is of my own invention - I would do 6 times of a two row repeat of single crochet through the back loop on the right side of the blanket, and single crochet through both loops on the wrong side of the blanket, then would do a row of half double crochet through the back loop, then a row of triple crochet (through both loops), one more row of half double crochet through the back loop, a row of single crochet through both loops, then repeat the original 12 row pattern at the start. It gave the blanket an interesting texture that I absolutely love, and the drape is fantastic. It has much more drape than if I were to have done ordinary single crochet the whole way.

The border is a simple single crochet (I think I did 3 rounds of it).



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