Serendipity patchwork

You may have been wondering what happened to the box of crochet squares. Well, we tried to do something like a Babette blanket and the talented people in the Babette blanket group at Flickr gave us some wonderful tips. But Mum just had to do her own thing and so her blanket turned out not Babette, but serendipity patchwork. We've been assembling it, but it's not quite finished yet. It still needs a couple of crochet rows to contain it and slip stitch embroidery on all the seams. I get to do the fiddly bits, so wish me luck.

And best wishes for 2008!

A cardboard box full

I'm just back in Sydney with Mum and asked her what she'd been doing. "Look," she said and emptied a cardboard box onto the table. "Now you have to help me sew it all together, Babette-ish."

A shoebox full of squares and the bottle bag subverted

Mum tells me she already has a shoebox full of squares of all sizes and it's overflowing. Onwards! We'll be putting them together to make a blanket in December.

And the bottle bag has found a home in Vienna and now holds the knives and spatulas of an artist friend, Sharon Ratheiser.

Babette blanket project

Mum has started work on the Babette blanket project. (I have yet to find out who Babette is/was.) She's sorted her yarn into acrylics and wool. Most of the acrylics were in pastels so that's what she's trying first as it's easier for her to crochet. She's also using a sort of granny square stitch because it's easier for her to feel her way around the holes. As she can't see the colours, I'll help her assemble the blanket when she has enough squares. She's really grateful to the people in the Babette blanket group at Flickr for their inspiration and advice.