Happy new week to everyone out there!
Hope you've been fine.
I have been sporadic with my posts on this blog; I offer no excuses, but I will say that I have been terribly busy with all things crafty.
Here are all the things I've been doing, especially last weekend:
Caveat - My photography skills are deeply amateur, and my camera phone sucks, so forgive the picture quality.
I cooked traditional Nigerian yam pottage, with some ugba added (that's sliced oil bean, for the uninitiated). I didn't use the recipe on the link, because it's a very basic dish that I learned as a teenager.
You can't see it, but trust me, there's big chunks of fish buried under all that spinach!
I got to noticing all the blue around me. You ever notice how you might get a colour stuck in your mind, and then that seems to be all you can see everywhere you look?
It started with my SIBOL October swap package that arrived on Saturday (Yay!!)
My shawl hanging on the cupboard door
The curtains in my room
The bead jewelry I restrung for my mother from paper, glass and seed beads, and finally, what is fast becoming my crochet Magnum Opus...
Blue Stripes in my Monster Ripple blanket (and gratuitous shot of my tie-dye wrapper from Senegal!)
And the ripple journey so far. I began this journey over a month ago, and with other projects on the side, I'm still patiently plodding through my yarn stash, decimating it as I go. The stripes are wonderful to plan, and oddly for me, the blanket has not bored me once. So far it's 6" x 5", and counting. I want it big enough that I can snuggle my big 6" self underneath comfortably.
Can I share a secret?
I have decided to name it my nuptial blanket. Why? because it's going into my hope chest.
