#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

This was the funny part of my DA Kiss Week Mourning entry, and I cope with grief with humor. Isa happens to stumble on humor accidentally

I wrote the song in 2022, exaggerating my frustrations with a local kid I knew into an edgy satirical tune. Before releasing it officially I'd performed it a few times during some small sets and it quickly became a few people's favourite song from me. The music video - which was delayed and originally filmed in 2023 - is currently my highest performing music-related video on Youtube.