Slacker!

~16 March~

 So, little miss N DID sleep very well on Thursday, and I almost was able to finish the blanket.  Only reason I didn’t finish at work on Thursday . . . I ran out of the “Florals” partway through THE LAST ROW!!!! GAH!  Luckily we were able to find a “skein” of that colourway at Zellers on Thursday, so I finished stitching the blanket that day.

A BIG thank-you to kidneybean!  I don’t know why it hadn’t occured to me to weave the ends in both ways . . . that made all the difference!   Of course, the ones I HADN’T done that way are frayed a little still, so I picked up some Fray Check at Michaels yesterday and that should do just fine.

My next projects are almost finished too.  Of course, they are significantly easier than the blanket.  Baby K, the one who the blanket is for, has 2 big sisters and I wanted to make them something too, so they don’t feel like K gets everything.  So, I am stitching up some quick ponchos for them.  The pattern is essentially my own . . . just 2 simple 60×15 double crocheted rectangles sewn together like this. http://www.timmelfabrics.com/deirdreponcho.jpg

(yarn used ~ undetermined (iow I can’t remember which) worsted-weight brand in off-white)

I wanted to add something to the ponchos to coordinate with K’s blanket, so I did a search for free crochet flower patterns, and came up with this one http://crochet.about.com/od/flowers/ss/flowerwties.htm.  I love how it has ties . . . makes it a cinch to attatch them to the ponchos . . . They are SOOO easy to make and very cute, don’t you think?

I haven’t finished the poncho for little miss S, but since it will be the same as miss Z’s, I think one picture will suffice.

To answer a few questions and incredulities . . . we found Christopher some boots on Thursday.  We found a pair in the correct size, and they rang up at $5 . . . for that price, who CARES if we move somewhere where he won’t use them next winter!  Gotta love clearance prices!

Yes, both my birth sister and I have hearing loss . . . and of the same mixed type, which is unusal enough that they attribute it to genetics, though they can’t trace the loss to anyone in our ancestry . . . I’m HOPING that by this Wednesday I’ll have “normal-for-me” hearing so that the test results can be trusted and the powers-that-be can advise me on what kind of aid(s) I’ll need.  Of course, this means that we’ll no longer be under the “umbrella” of James’ extended health benefits because they expire 2 weeks after his official layoff date . . . and the cutoff date is this Friday. 

Okay . . . I’m going to take a vote.  What crochet project should I work on next after finishing Miss S’s poncho?  A blanket to donate to a friend’s charity auction, or an “elegant lace stole”?  Neither have “finish-by” dates in the near future, so it really doesn’t matter which I do . . .