Tunisian Crochet

Happy Friday! I finished my first square for the Tunisian crochet stitch along. “Jayda in Stitches” on YouTube is leading. She is teaching a different Tunisian stitch each month from January through December. Each stitch will make up a 12 x 12 square that will be sewn together into an Afghan. I’ve always been intimidated by Tunisian crochet so I decided to join the make along. Here is my first square for January. One thing that I learned pretty quickly is that Tunisian crochet tends to roll up on itself. This stitch was very, very simple. I hope the rest of them are as easy to learn.😍

I also decided I needed to make another baby sweater for our new grandbaby. The first one I made is newborn size and this one is a 3 to 6 month size. I know that she won’t be able to wear the newborn size very long, so this way they will have another one for her to grow into. Since I’m sure it will cost an arm and a leg to ship this box to London, I thought I might as well put as much in it as I can! This is a different pattern than the first one. I have never made it before and it is called “Marianna’s Lazydays Jack and Jill baby Cardigan Jacket”. Goodness! That’s a mouthful for a tiny baby sweater! I’m using the same yarn as the first sweater which is Hobby Lobby‘s Baby Bee Sweet Delight and it’s in the “flannel” colorway.

I also finished a pair of socks. These are made with West Yorkshire Spinners Signature four ply yarn that I bought in Deal in the UK when we were there last year. It is 35% Blue Faced Leicester and is 75% wool and 25% nylon.

They are just plain vanilla socks with a 20 row one by one ribbing. I didn’t want to use a pattern in the body of the sock because I thought the yarn made a pretty enough pattern.

Isn’t this sunset beautiful? This was in the parking lot at the church Wednesday night when we were on our way to Bible study. The colors were amazing. I do wish all of the powerlines weren’t in the way but they sure didn’t distract from the beauty of the sky.

Tomorrow we’re planning to go look at a few campers. It’s supposed to be 54°F for the high temp so we thought it would be a perfect day to look. I hope there aren’t a lot of people around or we’ll have to just leave. Next week the temperature is supposed to plummet again so we want to get out and enjoy it while we can. How are all of you doing this week? I would like to ask for prayers for a good friend of ours named Ellen who is in the ICU with pulmonary embolisms and Covid pneumonia. She used to be our housesitter all of the time in Spokane. She absolutely loved our dog Chloe and would stay with her whenever we had to go out of town. She is a very good friend to us and I’m very concerned about her. She is our former pastor, Mark‘s sister. You may remember that Mark died last month. Ellen is just in her 50’s so still very young. I’m positive she was vaccinated because she works in a doctors office. We know several people in Spokane who have Covid right now, as it’s very prevalent and spreading quickly. 

Take care my friends and stay safe.

Blessings and love, 

Betsy