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Subscribe Almost four months ago, I started my winter project to make two baby blankets for twin babies due in July. NOT MINE! (Sheesh.)
Hers.
Kate (52′s daughter) got married last summer, and now this summer, she’s making a family with two babies. Not knowing what the babies would be, I chose neutrals–one in yellow, blue, and lavender, and the other in white, peach, and green.
The blanket is striped, mostly half-double crochet and some single crochet with cute little crocheted flower accents. I found the (free) pattern here.
I was making good progress on the first blanket for awhile.
Then I fell woefully behind. I did a couple of rows every week. Which tapered off to doing no rows every week. And now my winter project has become my spring project because you know what? THE BABIES ARE STILL COMING. And they DON’T WAIT.
Babies are like that. So demanding!!
By the way, it is now known that one is a boy and one is a girl. My colors still work, so I’m going to keep on keeping on. You know, in my lapsed-frantic way. The frantic part being yesterday when I decided I was going to finish! the! blanket!
In one day!
Here’s what the blanket looked like when I started yesterday:
Do you have weird stuff on your coffee table? Here’s what’s on my coffee table (besides the usual mail and piles of magazines). Goat cookies.
A math field day plaque. (It’s Weston’s. He uses it as a coaster….)
Little guys! Where did they come from?
Dungeons & Dragons! I so don’t understand this game.
Oh, the baby blanket! SEE????? That’s exactly why these baby blankets aren’t finished yet.
Here’s what the baby blanket looked like at the end of the day.
Notice that it’s STILL NOT DONE. (However, also note that it took me four months to crochet half the blanket and a few hours yesterday to crochet nearly half of the rest of it. What’s up with that?)
The main part of the blanket is now close to finished. It lacks two more sections of striping then the edging and flower accents. I’m going to finish it today.
Really!!!
And then I’m going to start the other one!!!
Then I’m going to start baby blankets for my non-existent grandchildren. My children are still teenagers, of course. But in light of my normal pace of baby blanket production, I’m thinking that starting now is a good idea!
Did you finish your winter project? What’s on your coffee table?
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on May 5, 2011
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My coffee table always has something that shouldn’t be on there on there…anything from fish food and water test kits to piles of books and chewed up papers (rabbits do that).
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Granny Trace
http://www.grannytracescrapsandsquares.com
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A boy and a girl! Perfect on first try
I finally gave up on the coffee table, there isn’t one now. It continuously had too many things that did not belong…and was swiped onto the floor by a black lab’s tail.
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Other than the goat cookies, my coffee table has pretty much the same sort of things on it. I put them all way, but they always seem to find their way back.
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On my coffee table? Let’s see…4 stacks of magazines dating back to last year, pencils, tablet, 2 coasters, 3 bookmarks, half-eaten bag of marshmallows
, a couple used tissues, little dish for snacks, and of course on the few little bare patches is dust!
Maybe it’s time to clean it off a little.
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The other ongoing project is growth charts painted on canvas for my two-year-old niece and nephew. Had hoped to give it to them for Christmas. Didn’t happen. Next hoped for their 2nd birthday. Didn’t happen. Must find new date deadline for motivation.
My coffee table looks pretty good (at the moment) with three magazines, a seed catalog, a dish for change ($$) and a TV remote. (My breakfast table doesn’t look so good.)
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Coffee table: bird guides, a box of kitty treats, seed catalog, a notebook full of old church-camp newsletters, a photo album, several paperbacks and a vacuum cleaner instruction manual. Around here, that passes for tidy.
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On my coffee table, there’s an empty toy bin, a folded quilt, a picture I need to hang in the other room, a dusting rag, a cup of water, and I’m sure there are jelly fingerprints on that table…because there’s rarely a surface in our home that doesn’t have little jelly fingerprints on it
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My winter projects: I knitted knee socks and a cowl for my daughter, slouchy hat, fingerless gloves and pullover sweater for my DH, and am now on to a lacy scarf for myself. My coffee table: Gardening books & catalogs, today’s mail, a couple of pencils and pens, a cat toy, this- and last-month’s magazines, a big box of crayons that didn’t make it into the boxes of stuff we took to Vancouver WA for our grandsons last week (drat!) and a coaster with my glass of water on it.
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Most of my projects go this way… starts off slowly and either peters out or finishes in a quick flash after a long procrastination.
Best of Luck!
smiles,
Shari