MOD Preemie Baby Blanket Finished. Pink & White Striped.
The
weather has warmed up … but I see that snowflakes are in the forecast for
Monday; it looks like March intends to roar like a lion from beginning to
end ☹
Be that as it may – Spring is on my mind 😊
Daffodils,
babies, and garden plans are what I think of when Spring comes around.
I keep
hoping when I check the mail box, that I will have a package waiting for me; and
every day I am disappointed to see that my seed packets have yet to arrive –
I’d like to get some transplants started, soon.
I called
and asked Harley to come again, and look my printer over this afternoon; when
he left it was working … I hope it keeps working. I really rely on that
thing – not just for papers that need to be scanned or copied off and mailed
off: but, I need papers printed from saved documents too, and I have not been
able to do that since my solo lobo life started 26 months ago. If Bob were
still here, he would know what to do to get it up and running when it gets temperamental.
But Bob is not here in the flesh, anymore, and I have to depend on strangers to
help me (when they can fit me in) – and hope they will not rip me off.
Before
Harley arrived, I moved all the geranium bins into the chilly sunshine:
Geraniums are getting some sunshine.
And
noticed that the new potted daffodils I bought last payday, have opened up;
they are a two-tone hybrid. I love daffodils – I never have enough of them
around me.
And the
chives are putting out new growth, too.
New daffodils have burst into bloom ...
The
blooming daffodils brought to mind the Spring of 1974, when Bob and I first
started dating – it was in April, and the daffodils and pussy willows were
blooming. We were driving out West Skamokawa, when we came to where an old
homestead used to be: the entire field, as far as you could see, was full of
daffodils that had naturalized over the decades. I mentioned how I loved to
see the sunny splashes of color when daffodils appear in the Spring … and Bob
stopped the pickup right there and walked out into that field to gather an
armload of daffodils for me. For the rest of our backroads excursion, the
pickup cab was pleasantly pungent with his gift of love.
West Valley, Skamokawa. This picture was taken in August of 2019 - the daffodils had stopped blooming, and foloage had died back.
When I
got back inside, I sat in Bob’s recliner (mine, now), and watched eagles
soaring high into the clouds.
I
wondered if Bob was watching them too: he always liked watching eagles … and
he rides the clouds now. I smiled to think he’d have a birds-eye-view, now 😉
“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles – they shall run, and not be weary)/they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31
I had
time too, to repot the Angel Wing clippings that were outgrowing their rooting
containers; these Angel Wings will be one of my Fall Bazaar offerings – I will
be scouting for better pots to transplant them again, into.
Repotted Angel Wings into salvaged and washed butter containers.
Angel Wing Begonia in blossom.
After Harley
was paid, and left; I finished up the preemie baby blanket I had designed (pattern
follows; pretty simple and quick), and have been working on all
week; they will be donated to the Caring Pregnancy Center. I am focusing on
preemie size right now …
==MOD
PREEMIE BABY BLANKET
Size: 32” x 32”
square
Materials: 10.5-ounce
skein Bernat Baby Sport yarn; # 6 American knitting needles (Straight ser &
circular); tapestry needle
Terms
used:
K = knit
CO = cast
on
g. st =
garter stitch (knit each row)
inc =
increase
sts = stitches
dec =
decrease
With
straight needles, CO 2 sts; k 1, inc next st
Work in
garter st, *inc 1 st at beginning of every row*.
Change color every 3rd row: carry yarn up the side of work in progress.
When
there are 100 sts on needle, change to circular needle – and continue
in * to * pattern, until
there are 224 sts on needle.
Begin dec
rows with next row, as follows: *dec 1 st (k 2 sts together)
at beginning of every row* (changing to straight needles
when there are 100 sts on needle) – until 2 sts remain on needle. EO
MOD Preemie Baby Blanket started on straight needles to 100 sts count; sts moved to circular needle.
MOD Preemie Baby Blanket; two-thirds of the way in length.
MOD Preemie Baby Blanket. Rounding the return ends.
Starting a yellow one tomorrow.
Blanket
finished/stored with the preemie gowns and caps ... and the promise of a renewed printer in the spare room; I settled in for
a relaxing read, with a cup of hot cocoa and new Sackett novel 😉
Maybe
tomorrow, I’ll make return trip to Castle Rock to check and see if those seed potatoes
have finally arrived.
