@lucysmam glad to see you back <waves> it’s InTheNight by a new name. I love the For blanket. I didn’t another of Hooked on Sunshine’s projects and I crochet the first few rows but you get used to her style and then it was a nice project, you can get into a repetition on the sides but then do a new set of stitches the round after so you aren’t bored stupid.
@Ladywithacat temperature blankets are really any sort of pattern you want. You can do a row a day, you can do a half row in the high and half in the low. My half completed blanket is for the first year of DD, I will have 52 hexagons with 7 rounds each. They are arranged in a honeycomb pattern of 6 hexagons on a row, then 7, then 6… that will give me 364 days so the border will be the day she was born. However, I’ve seen on FB people doing temperature snakes or using blankets to track other things like sleep and books read.
My mum knits and learnt from her Nan, so got her old button tin with buttons in. I raided the button tin when I started crochet. My grandma could sew and used to do my aunt’s dance costumes but she’d stopped by the time I could have learnt and I wouldn’t have wanted to learn sewing. DD is 1 but she is a yarn artist in the making, she’s always in my yarn stash, my hooks and my mum’s knitting bag when she gets a chance. All my old granny squares that I started with are now DD’s along with swatches and she just likes playing with them. I am a beginner knitter (although I’ve not done it for a few months so need to get back in the swing of it) so I’m not sure if DD will pick up crochet or knitting first.
I have downloaded a digital journal to have on my iPad but the idea of handing down a journal is really nice. I am messing about trying to come up with patterns so I like the idea of DD getting my notebooks with bits scribbled out and post it notes stuck all over it!