Mum's latest creations from Sydney

Mum's been working hard and sent me some pix for the blog. These are the squares she'd been crocheting which are now assembled into a warm rug for the winter.

And here is the perfect garment for going to check the letterbox.

New squares on the old

Before Mum lost her sight she was working on a lovely crochet rug, but it wasn't quite finished and needed more squares.

She's been crocheting a fair bit over the last months and has made a lot of new squares which will be added to the rug so that it looks like this and more.

Pastel crochet blanket

But that's not all. She was doing this on the side and is finalising it today.

Poetry in motion

Mum went up to sit with the Pink Ladies today.
There were about six of them all knitting and crocheting for the hospital shop. She sat and chatted and when she came out she uttered a verse in German from Schiller's poem Das Lied von der Glocke (Song of the Bell).

Tausend fleißige Hände regen,
Helfen sich in muntrem Bund.

(Thousands of busy hands stir,
Help each other in happy union.)

Here's a rug that Mum made from wool remnants as part of the efforts of the Pink Ladies for the hospital shop.

Bits and pieces

I seem to have baskets of bits and pieces of wool around the house and I had set about working through them. I'm making a rug out of this lot of wool remnants. It's just crocheted squares of leftovers that you then arrange nicely.

You can also use bits of leftover wool to make booties. These have fleece soles, and I'll tell you about fleeces next time.