Recent Fun

A few weeks back my dad went to Montreal to visit his family. While up there his mom gave him a huge blanket that she crocheted to give to me. She is so thrilled that I have taken up a hobby/craft that she enjoyed for many years. She can no longer crochet or knit so she also gave me all her old hooks and needles! Now I have no excuse for not trying to knit!

Isn't it beautiful? It could fit a king size bed! She obviously used a really small gauge hook so it must have taken her forever to make this blanket! I will certainly cherish it! Here are a few more detailed pictures:

This week I also received an awesome package from Brie. Look at how she spoils me with yummy yarn!!

I'm thinking that the multicolored wool wants to be a felted purse, and the green yarn will be used for my last travelling scarf seed. Not sure about the rest though. I am making her a red Twilight hat in return - almost done!

Today I received 2 travelling scarves in the mail. Its part of a freestyle knit and crochet group, but for some reason both are requesting specific knit patterns! (kinda bugs me since its supposed to be freestyle & crochet too!)

For one of them I had known in advance that she was doing a knit pattern and we had agreed that I would crochet a border on it once it was complete, so I was surprised when I received her starter seed. I took a look at the pattern and decided - I'm going to give it a shot! Thanks to my Nonna's needles and youtube I am now knitting the "scrunchable stitch!" Can you believe it? It doesn't look half bad!

Now the other one is requesting a chevron/ripple stitch, I don't know about that...

I also started this cute caplet sweater about a month ago but haven't gotten around to taking a picture of it yet:

So many projects, so little time...