And finally … I just finished this one day before yesterday and she is off to her new home tomorrow.
I am sooo happy with how it turned out. I challenged myself to get it done by July 4th and I did it … 2 weeks of non stop crocheting (well nearly non-stop)
I used to knit and make clothes when I was younger (arthritis made me stop) and I got really creative with the cabling stitches. I also made a 7 foot teddy bear once for a friend’s birthday. So long ago if I had any pictures they would be in black + white.
I figured I would post it here and show this old post some love
I can’t believe a whole year has gone by. It’s amazing when you take on a project that is going to take a specific amount of time. Time passes a little differently. This was an undertaking and I loved every minute of it. I’ve seen so many people start, but never finish a temp blanket. I read all the pros and cons. I am so happy I decided to do it my way instead of the traditional way and end up with a blanket 3 miles long
Anyhoo … here she is in all her glory!!! It’s still so big I had to have two people hold it up and I still couldn’t get it all in frame LOL ! It’s approx. 8’ x 6’.
Nice one. Takes me back to being a kid. We used to go up to the Lake District a lot of the weekends from Spring to Autumn when I was a kid and there were always blankets just like that, which my grandmother had made. Hot coffee, misty early spring mornings, sitting in bed, wrapped in the blankets – probably not quite as monumentally huge though! Mind, when you are 8 they all feel huge. Beautiful job.
Yes … each square represents a month and each row in the square represents the temp for each day. I started it on January 1, 2022 and finished it on December 31, 2022.
@RedKittieKat the small brown satchel was made for my mom, along with the small zippered coin purse. The similar small purple satchel was made for my oldest niece. The watch band for my dad, one of the belts also as well as the small tumbler wrap. The other belt and the roll-up tube thing (intended to be a toiletries travel kit/carrier) were for my brother in law.
The large brown satchel wasn’t made by me, but it is my own personal every day bag. If it wasn’t obvious, it was the inspiration for the overall design/construction of the two smaller satches.
I would have posted some other projects from 2019 but they’ve been uploaded to my OneDrive which has been frozen after running out of storage space hah. If I can ever get them re-downloaded I’ll post some of those as well.