I’m working all the way through one cake before moving to the next, letting the colors fall as they naturally occur. If you’re loving all those blues in my afghan, I used 3 cakes of Caron Cakes Lovely Layers in Iced Mint and 2 cakes in Sugared Blueberries. In one, I’ve chose two delectable color ways of Caron Cake Yarn-3 of one color and 2 of the other. I’ve worked this pattern two ways, so you can pick what suits you best. This year is different and so, too, is the 2020 Scrap Afghan Project. I chose my favorite purples, grays and delicious stash yarns for that project. moving from one year to the next with good, beautiful things on the horizon. Last year we made the Happy Lark Crochet Scrap Blanket. A scrap afghan, after all, has a certain vibe and if you have enough yarn in your stash it can flow to a certain color scheme. It’s a great post to visit because I also talk about yarn selection and auditioning colors for a scrap afghan. And so… the Onward and Upward Crochet Scrap Afghan captured all the feels. Two years ago we were packing up and moving into our big house in the country. You can get the completely free, printable version of the scrap afghans in the Vault, a special password protected area of my website exclusively for my newsletter subscribers. If you’ve been with me for a bit, you know that the past few years I’ve offered a free scrap afghan project to welcome in the new year. And so ‘Wistful Wave’ perfectly captures my feelings in the moment as this unusual year ends and a new one beckons… full of uncertainty, but hopeful too as those waves slowly roll in and out, constantly changing the landscape. ‘Wistful’ means ‘full of yearning and desire melancholy’. The Wistful Wave Crochet Blanket is all that. And be present in the good of the moment. The kind of crochet project where you kick up your feet, snuggle under your work and mindlessly crochet away all the disturbing things in life you’d just as soon forget. What I really needed was the soothing balm of a fast boat ride. And if I had to pick only one guilty pleasure in life, this would be it.Īnd so in this year of the unexpected. I’ve done my best dreaming on a fast boat ride. Eyes closed, deep, soul cleansing breaths in and out. No point in talking as the wind whistles past. Boat skipping on the tops of waves, only to crash down now and then to spray water in a cool surprise that brings squeals of delight. Hair whipped back by wind that smells of the sea. Not a slow, leisurely, chat it up with family kind of boat ride. I’ve spent the happiest parts of my life on a boat. The perfect, soothing balm in a sea of crazy times.
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