March Projects

It has been a very busy month for us. Jeff finished winter quarter with passing grades and we enjoyed a nice time while he was on spring break. Now it's back to school for him. I began working as a part-time custodian at Xenia Christian and Jeff transferred over to the south campus. (I'm pretty glad about that because we don't work really well together). We also have found an apartment and will be moving some time in April. We are really excited to be moving into the Kettering area right across from a nice little park. The area is even quieter than the Legacy Campus where we are living with my parents now.

I made a few scarves this month. I'm pretty proud of myself getting started on some Christmas presents so early. Hopefully this year wont be such a mad dash at the end to get things finished by Christmas. We shall see. The gray scarf is a pattern I have made before, it is a really great guy scarf and since most of my family is made up of guys this is pretty perfect. The hooded scarf was a little more complicated. It took a while to do since it is all seed stitch but I learned how to make button holes which is pretty cool. My mom will be getting this scarf and she loves it. (Yes she has already seen it and I know, I'm just really bad about keeping secrets. Besides, I don't want to give her something she doesn't like). I had Jeff take some pics of the scarf on me. It is great because it wraps up like a hood but it can also just wrap like a scarf and not look weird like some hooded scarfs I've seen. I'm thinking of modifying the pattern to make another one that isn't seed stitch and doesn't have the scalloped edges. We shall see. Sorry I look a little sick in the pics, I wasn't really wearing makeup. But you still get the effect of the scarf.

I have also been trying my hand at crochet this month. We visited Jeff's parents last month and Linda (my mother-in-law) let me have her old crochet hooks. So I have delved a little into the world of crochet. At first I made some little flowers just to get the hang of things. I have no idea what I will do with these, maybe use them as face scrubbers? I don't know. Then I made some little circular face scrubbers they work pretty well and are the size of cotton rounds you would buy at the store.

The final project I have worked on this month is my amazing technicolor blanket (yes that is what I'm calling it thank very much) I have been working on this one off and on for a while and started putting some pieces together and adding to it now. It will be a little throw blanket when its done. I have a feeling I will be working on it for a long time though.