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It’s a rather rainbow bobble of yarn but Simone deemed it finished. First scalloped border, too! Waffle stitch is a yarn eater but so much fun!

Well, the second square is still an infant (the directions are super unclear to me… I am figuring it out with lots of trial and error, but it’s slooow and fruuustrating.) Meanwhile… I’ve made a few gifts that I can reveal (others I can not yet). Fingerless gloves for my niece and nephew, a hat…

I mentioned being distracted by a shorts pattern. First I bought this fabulous cotton bamboo tencel yarn. Turns out that’s a total pain in the rear to work with. Super slippery, hard to hold tension (an extra loop on the left hand helps), and splits very easily. Gorgeous once worked up by a bear to…

The purple yarn I was missing arrived from Spain today, and I am off to the races… sort of. Baby Hennes is living his best 4-month-sleep- regression-life and is only snoozing in irregular spurts and mostly only when attached directly to my body. Not a great setup for crocheting. I also had my post baby…

First one is done! Things I have learned: multi color crochet, magic ring beginnings, and that blocking your work is a thing (plus, how to do it!). I’m excited to start the second but, of course am missing one color, so while I wait for that to be delivered, I’ll work on some other projects.…

This site is my accountability buddy as I embark on a 40 granny square journey. I recently got back into crochet after years of knitting as my preferred yarn craft. It’s been a hoot and provides lots of smaller milestones of completion along the way. As the mama of now two small humans, spending long…