I found a pretty crochet scrunchie pattern on youtube. Link here. MJ's Off The Hook Designs. I used a 4.0 mm bamboo hook and the same brand of yarn used in the tutorial. The yarn is a cotton/acrylic blend, fingering weight.
I made two of these. One for dear daughter and one for me. Each scrunchie took me about 4 hours to finish. It was a fun pattern to crochet and the instructions were very easy to follow.
I finished the first row of the hexagon quilt. I'm busy basting more white hexagons for the next 5 rows. I believe I may need 400 more white hexagons. Fun.
I finally got my house on the market and I picked up my hexagon quilt to start putting my flowers into rows. I got the white hexies on the first two flowers of the first row. I have 34 more full flowers and 6 half flowers to get the quilt top together. It will take awhile.
I've been busy working in my yard. I had to dig up six old posts from the deck that disintegrated a few years back. They were cemented in and I had to dislodge them, then my daughter and I had to hire some guys to pull them out of the ground. They had a lot of cement attached. Then I had to fill in the holes so I could get a new stair built from the dining room sliding glass door. I'm also raking and bagging all the oak leaves and pinestraw left from the winter.
I'm getting ready to sell the house that's why I had stairs built from the dining room door. The raking I do every year. I've filled 79 bags of yard waste in the last two weeks and I'm not finished.
I did do some sewing. I made curtains for my daughter's kitchen and laundry room. Basic rectangles with a casing for a curtain rod.
I also made some kiss clasp frame change purses. These were fun to make.
In January I bought some lovely straight knitting needles from Knitpicks so I could knit scarves. They are size 13 (9.0 mm). I'm really enjoying knitting with these needles.
I also bought a collection of small skeins of acrlic yarn from Amazon in pinks and purple tones. I'm using 9 of these skeins to knit a scarf. I'm using up each skein and knitting 4 rows in between each color with a color I found in my stash. I'm calling this the ugliest scarf I've ever seen, but I think when I wear it next winter I'll love it.
Here's a picture of the first three colors and the start of the fourth.
I finished all 36 full flowers and 6 half flowers. These are ready for me to add the white hexies that will separate each flower in the row. I think I counted that each row will need 96 white hexagons to finish it. Not sure if that is accurate but it's probably pretty close.
