Hi there

Hi everyone

Yes it is Sunday morning, so why am I here?

Well, hubby left while it was dark this morning to play golf and I thought I would catch up with blog-world.

Now I do have something to show you, but the weather has been overcast for almost 2 weeks now.  And I really think it has gotten confused and thinks it is now Autumn, a little cool, not Spring, a little warm.  ☺

I wanted to take a nice, sunshiney photo, but it seems to be going against me - so you will have to just get a glimpse of it.

Now before I show you, I will tell you the story ....... didn't I mention something about that in the last post

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About a month ago I mentioned that I was not alone in the hospital waiting room crocheting.  So while us ladies chatted and compared notes - I really admired her lovely pattern, which was for a baby blanket.  She could not remember the name, so I tried to work it out by looking at it - Nope, not my forte!!!!  I could not follow what she was doing - I was chatting and working on my project at the same time - I'm just not that talented ☺  She did mention it was really easy and was always her fall-back pattern.

So I have been scouring the net, but unfortunately I really needed to see a close up of the stitches to confirm I had the right pattern - it took me a few weeks of searching to find that close up - came close lots of times, but was never quite sure.  Then I spotted a close-up of some-ones project on Ravelry - Yahoo!!!!  I found it.

Now hubby's cricket season has started and this has become a perfect, no actually PERFECT, pattern to work

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will show you a little glimpse

Eventually .......

Firstly, I am working this in Paton Australia's Smoothie - an acrylic which is not usually my choice.

It has been discontinued and a bargain is a bargain

And I was very surprised how soft and squishy and SMOOTH!!!  this yarn is

Ok all good so far

But there is one drawback, and for me a MAJOR one

See if you can spot it in the photo ....

Yep, it sure is splitty

Lucky I'm using a slightly rounded head crochet hook

I still have to be careful that all the strands are looped

This would be so difficult knitting or crocheting with a pointy head

You really can't see the pattern too well with this yarn, but it is still working up so lovely

It looks like a basket-weave when done in one colour - another project which I will definitely be starting shortly in more male colours, or in neutral colours

As today is D3's hubby's birthday and D3's is on Wednesday, I am off to have lunch with them and D2 and partner and a whole lot of other invitee's.

Eventually hubby will join us to

But he will miss out on the scrumptious lunch

Hope you all enjoy your day of rest