Happy Easter, my fellow quarantinees. It’s a strange one, that’s for sure, but maybe that makes the meaning of Easter even clearer. It’s going to be amazing when we all come out of this quarantine period. It really will be like a resurrection.
Anyway, at the risk of getting too sentimental, let’s get to the crochet:
Turns out when you have nothing to do but stay inside and crochet, you can make an afghan pretty darn quickly. (Admittedly, that’s pretty much all I did anyway, but the stress of COVID-19 has meant I’ve been turning to crochet even more than usual.) Here is the Isolation Blossom Blanket CAL nearing completion. This was the week when we made granny squares. We weren’t going to be joining them together for a while, but I was really excited to do so.
My boyfriend helped arrange the squares using a combination of six-sided and four-sided dice to determine random color order, which worked astonishingly well. Then I joined them all using a sc, ch 3 in the side chain spaces. It’s halfway joined right now, which is when he captured the above picture. I won’t pretend that’s my best angle, but the happiness is real. Because even though we’re stuck inside for 28 days now, I can’t remember ever being this happy. I have everything I need. And I realize just how lucky I am.
I hope you’re happy too, whoever and wherever you are.
Gorgeous!
I am making strips using my left over yarns using the Mile a Minute pattern. I am making them about 40 inches in length and will join them to make lap robes to donate to a nursing home.
Happy Easter to you too! That blanket is looking great – and I’m intrigued by your dice method of random colour order, you should write a post about that! 😀