March was the prettiest blanket month so far! Because temperatures varied so widely from 20s up to 70s. On my birthday I crochet a thin gold thread along with the mint green yarn so I can always tell which day in the blanket is my birthday.
Crafty Ramblings
Here’s what my temperature blanket looks like at the end of February. We’ve finally had a second day in the 40s (the cream color)! Most of the days this month were very cold (the dark blue) with a few extremely frigid days (lavender).
New Year’s weekend Jason and I learned about temperature blankets. I had heard of them back when I used to belong to Facebook groups for crocheting several years ago, but hadn’t felt motivated to look into them at all back then because I was already working on my dad’s granny square blanket and it was…
For Jason’s birthday I crochet him a leaf sheep! I couldn’t find a pattern anywhere, so I made up my own. What is a leaf sheep? The leaf sheep, also known as the leaf slug, is a tiny species of sea slug found in the oceans near Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. They are called…
This year because we had so much more time than we are normally used to having to ourselves around the holidays (due to not being able to visit anyone because of the pandemic), we were able to make a lot more crafty gifts without feeling at all stressed about having time to finish everything. I…
Last night Crafty Jason and I had a unique kind of date–making a homemade face mask! Where we live in Massachusetts, face masks will be mandatory to wear when in public starting this week due to the coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic, and while we have respirators that we normally wear for crafty projects like welding and dusty…