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Just Another Hat

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 Well, it's done. This is not the best photo but as requested by my granddaughter it's a cat ears hat; dark gray with pale pink ears. Although not a difficult crochet project for me, it has taken some time to complete for various reasons. I started making this hat in the summer, which means months ago in Florida. As the days grew longer and hotter, closing the blackout curtains became mandatory, and as any experienced crocheter knows, black and other dark colored yarns are hard to see, especially in dimly lit rooms so that--along with my aging eyes slowed my progress. Summer in Florida is different. It begins in April or even March with temperatures in high 80s to low 90s and from there it ramps up to 90s and 100s Fahrenheit with high humidity by June. There it remains until sometime in December, usually. There's no relief at night either.                  I have other long neglected projects to do: two afghans (that's crochet for blanke...
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In Progress

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 The cat claimed this one.
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Amigurumi critter

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 I just finished this little kitty.
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Hats

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 Recently I got a request from my grand daughter for a frog hat. I was able to find several easy patterns on you tube, so I made one for my grandson too. I can't take credit for the patterns. Will try and post links to the crochet videos found on you tube if I can.  The basic bucket hat pattern for both hats came from Melody Crochet on her you tube video.
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The Gift of Time

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 When you don't have money, but you do have more time --and a bag full of yarn, you can make things.
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A different kind of yarn

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  When life is a dirt road lay down some gravel… Today marks seven weeks of fractured arm Hell and I still can’t get a full 7 - 8 hours sleep. It’s sleep 3 hours wake up in pain, walk the floor for an hour, fall into bed exhausted and wake up 2 hours later, still exhausted. A few nights or a week ago I gave in and swallowed five low dose aspirin between 10:30 and 11 PM. By 3 AM I woke up because I was dreaming about being in pain and because I had to pee. I got up, took 4 or 5 more aspirin, drank some water, lay down on bed, woke up at 5 AM in pain. No more aspirin; it doesn’t help, and neither did Tylenol BTW. Online I read of the wonders of recliner chairs and sleeping semi - upright in them. I scroll through Amazon’s offerings and Lazy Boys website and decide there’s no way I can take on more debt. I will have to grit and bear it. Speaking of grit and gravel…there are things you can do with gravel. You can build a decent driveway or road, and skip the mandatory hot sticky blackt...
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