Best laid plans...

Last September I broke a hip so was relatively inactive (for me) for several weeks, and had to cancel a trip to France and Spain. However, the crochet hook can be quite as active at home as when travelling... The fact that one of our young friends went into hospital just as I came out - to have her first baby! - gave me the impetus to make a blanket for the newcomer, and I was thrilled shortly afterwards to receive a photo of the new baby wrapped in the blanket! It's so good to have something you've made used and appreciated...

I misread the pattern at the beginning, but it was working out well so I continued doing it my way and was pleased with the result. Later I used the same pattern - worked correctly this time! - to make a single bed size blanket in stripes. This is one which has gone to SIBOL to be given to someone in a care home. It's in a variety of colours but the base was a large cone of soft beige DK which I'd bought in a job lot. I kept making alternate stripes (two rows at a time) with the beige and contrast colours until the cone ran out, then added an edging to finish off the blanket. The single bed size would have been too big a job to be doing while travelling, so it was as well that I had to work at home on this! Well, it kept me busy anyway.