Under Color Crochet

    The Plan! 🤩 Make a baby blanket, that the Dean of Extended Studies will like. 😎  It has to be soft and sweet, for a baby. But it can't be too baby'ish. 😁 And it has to be ready in time for the baby shower. 🎉 I worked on it pretty much every evening for about a month, never rushed, but always focused on getting it done. I enjoyed every colorful minute of this labor of love project.  I absolutely loved making this baby shower gift. 😍 A giant granny square, with a double ruffle around the whole edge = perfect baby blanket. Six skeins of yarn for the granny square, and another two skeins of white for the double ruffle. Wow! Big blankie. Big, big, baby blankie. 😎    Here's a video of my boss and her husband, opening the gift:  Baby Shower Potluck Party, opening gifts I started with white in the center, and kept going around with the colors, eight times. Six times eight is forty-eight, yes! Forty-eight rounds! This baby is a beast. 😍 My fave thi...

  This is not your grandfather's camouflage! 😋 Or is it? 😁 I absolutely loved making this sweet piece, and it is comfy cozy enough for any grandfather to appreciate. Plus, those soft colors are perfect for grandpappy dreaming. Even softer: the chenille yarn is positively luxurious! And so fun to work with, I love how it feels so fluffy and works up so fast. The yarn company calls this yarn "Naptime," and that is a perfect label for chenille. It has a medium weight given, but I feel like it borders on light weight. Each strand is quite thin by itself, and that can be beautiful. For example: Hippie Fringe , Clouds and Sunshine,   Sage and Sand .  And a beautiful bonus of Sage and Sand: New Orleans Winter . But this time, I wanted something a bit more bulky. So, I combined four strands at once, each a different color. And, yay!! The camouflage of unicorns emerged like magic. 😍  I do love mixing colors, and several times I have made classic camouflage items for my A...

Six years ago?! No way. Someone has added wrong. It cannot be six years already since I crocheted this great group of granny squares. When these photos appeared today in my "Throwback Thursday" newsfeed of memories, I just had to shake my head, and try to deny it. Ah, those memories. Blurry photos (miss that old camera, an actual little camera), lame poses, bad lighting... Ok, yea, that was me. I do have to chuckle over how even back then, without a blog to post photos on, I was already trying to pose the crochet piece. 😁👍 What a big fun beast this was to work on, night after night, that cold Wisconsin winter. The box of tissues there for scale (above photo) gives you an idea of how big this thing is after it was all assembled.  I remember those weeks so well, and absolutely loved snuggling down each evening to work on another square. Thirty nights in a row, I practiced a different technique (like the tbl stitch, through the back loop) or solved a problem (like corner perfe...