Little Things

This week consisted of the following three things and a few small house cleaning type things. 

My otterbox was delivered today!

Wicked Wednesday

Just finished second year of Uni this week, finally began doing non-study type activities and was excited to do so, because the stress of 3 final essays in a week and a half was a nightmare.

What a wonderfully busy Wednesday. Began the day with some productive list making, shopping lists, to-do lists, lists of lists.  Rode my bike to the shopping centre and gathered fruit, vegetables and some lamb to make a roast dinner. 

Got all the list things done, now to relax and get some crocheting done on the rainbow blanket and then I'll continue reading Maggie Stiefvater's Scorpio Races. 
Love and wooly things to all.

A Baby Blanket

So, my cousin is having a baby. She got married not very long ago.  I didn’t really get her a present for her wedding, although I was a bridesmaid.  I was kind of impoverished at the time (being a student is the financial pit of doom) and was a little annoyed that I had to pay for my own dress.  $300-ish for a floor length lilac dress that I will more than likely never wear again.  It was however a delightful wedding.  Then in her thankyou note, she said:

… you, my only female cousin who I see as a sister, made the day all the more special… All my love.

I felt like a bumface for being that tiny bit annoyed by the dress.  So when she said she was with child, I thought it would be nice to crochet a blanket for her baby girl, who is expected this May. I thought I’d start it in January, so I’d have plenty of time to finish it.  Also I didn’t want to be stressing out mid-session at uni – trying to write essays and finish a blanket. I started making it on the 8th of January.  These were the colours I picked.  My cousin’s favourite colour is aqua – it was hard to find colours that went with that.  But I sent her photo’s of a few options, to see what she thought.  This was her favourite combination.  I was a little concerned about the navy blue.

After I got home, I started crocheting like a demon possessed.  I liked this pattern, it was a join as you go granny pattern.

It grew really quickly.

Then I had to stop for a couple of days to write an essay for summer session.  After that I got back in to crocheting this speedy little speed blanket.

All of a sudden, the majority of the blanket was finished.  All that was left was to edge it and then the horrid task of stitching in all those little loose ends.  WORST PART OF BLANKET MAKING EVER!

But yesterday, in between reading and watching the  BBC’s Pride and Prejudice I finally finished it.  I made an entire blanket in less that a month.  Sometimes I really impress myself.  Like really impress myself.

It might even be the most impressive blanket I have ever made.  It is for a baby girl.  It is not pastel.  It is not pink.  Nobody else has this blanket.  I kind of like how it turned out.  I don’t think it is gender specific and I don’t care what anyone thinks.