It is the season for counting my blessings and the Temperature Afghan. It helped me finish an albatross of a project that has been sitting around cluttering my mind and the workbasket. One of my blessings recently has been a broken toe. Broken or sprained, it is hard to tell with small bones. Either one, it has been a huge blessing. Isn’t that odd. It forced a change in our Thanksgiving routine, to sit down and ask for help, and brought about teamwork and fun. My other blessings were and are more conventional; my husband, the kids, the grandkids, new grandbaby, family, home, jobs, faith and health. The broken toe seems to stand out as a good thing that has happened this Fall.
Forced Family Time
Forcing us to ask for help with cooking, cleaning and dishes after Thanksgiving. Even the grandkids got in on the helping. It was wonderful. Many times it feels like the two of us against a huge amount of dishes and cooking. It’s not that they won’t help, it’s that we didn’t ask for the help. Spending time together doing dishes and then just talking is great.
Forced Sitting
Forcing me to sit down and finally finish two crochet blankets that have been hanging around forever. Yay for breaking a toe. Boring me enough to sit and to crochet the borders on these two afghans; the Temperature afghan and the scrap chevron. Finally, they are finished and I am celebrating.
Writing the Pattern for the Temperature Afghan
Forcing me to sit down and finally write the pattern for you. Which patterns do you think are being released in the next couple of weeks? Is it the Sunshine Hat pattern? Well, no it isn’t. It is still on the list. Reaching that goal that was set last Spring to finish three new patterns before the end of the year. Here is the first: The Temperature blanket pattern. 3 years in the works and ready for the year 2020. You too can crochet a temperature blanket.
It was only lacking the edging which made it a quick finish. I just needed to sit down and do it. Now this blanket isn’t a whole year of crocheting only nine months but it is exactly the length I want it to be. This blanket finishes ends in August. However, the pattern tells you how to crochet yours all the way to December 31. Is it awful that I didn’t finish it? No, it became a huge roadblock and was just slowing all my other crocheting down. Besides that new Grandbaby was born in August 2020 and what with Covid and quarantining, I’ve been lucky to finish anything.
Here is the pattern on Etsy. Here’s the pattern in the shop!
More Crochet on the Horizon
I seem to have found my crochet mojo again since I declared it complete. It might just be the much cooler weather that makes it pleasant to be underneath a big crochet blanket. It might be a blending of both. The two other patterns are being released slowly over the next month.
There is also a rewrite of the favorite chevron afghan. A complete color listing and a total yarn weight so you can see if you have enough yarn to create it as a scrap afghan.
Check back soon to see what else will be coming over the next few weeks.
Talk to you later,
Karen