My eyes have settled down. The vision is much worse than it was but it isn't changing every day plus with strong enough glasses I can see if I use large needles. So I bought some baby alpaca and made stuff for Andrew. I made him a hat (Caps for Kids Swirled Hat from Knitting for Peace) and a scarf (just plain garter stitch with i-cord edges) and mittens (Gifted by Kate Gilbert) and gloves (pattern found at suite101.com). Long ago I was using up some Caron Simply Soft and all I had was red and black so those became his colors. This time they didn't have black so I used a very dark heathery blue with flecks of red in it.
I am also crocheting up all the odds and ends of this and that (all the synthetic yarns) into a queen size afghan. I found the picture on the web and fell in love. Then I found the pattern on Ravelry -
Shell Stitch Afghan by Anastacia Zittel. There are a few patterns for Diagonal Box Stitch afghans which look like the same stitch to me. The cutest part of the afghan is the two fuzzy white things - the big one is Fritz who birthday is on the 12th (he will be one) and the little one is Alf who turned two in January.
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I think I'm going to shave my fuzzy white thing and spin her hair into yarn . . .
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