Bloggerel

#FlashbackFriday again, and it has been way too hot to spend too much time thinking about blankets. So here are some smaller ones I crocheted, maybe 10 years ago?

I think the yarn is Bernat, but it was so long ago I don’t remember - only that they came in those “big ball” sizes (hundreds of yards/meters), were about a #3 weight, and the teal green color was called “grasshopper.” I have no idea what project(s) I originally had intended to use them for, either.

What actually happened was that two teachers (under whose supervision I worked) became expectant parents, with due dates only a couple of days apart. So I picked out my stitch patterns, and started to hook.

Not that different, but just enough. I usually make blankets much bigger - kids grow - but for some reason I kept these smaller.

(Found out a few years later that one of the blankets was still in use by its former baby - but as a “superhero” cape. Awwwwwww!)

There was still plenty of yarn left over, and eventually this is what I used it up on:

It may look like a difficult stitch pattern, but it was rated as “beginner” by the magazine I learned it from. (Plus, I’d already made a blanket with that pattern, so it was firmly engraved in my muscle memory.)

I still have the third one - no occasion to gift it yet. (Which also means my kids aren’t aware it exists and therefore have not thieved it from me.)

XOXO

Lou Christie, “Lightnin’ Strikes,” 1965

Paul McCartney & Wings, “Let ‘Em In,” 1976

Peaking at #7 on the “Billboard” Hot 100, fifty years ago today.

The Rolling Stones, “Mother’s Little Helper,” 1966