A bamboo blanket for baby

A little bird has whispered of a new baby coming next year, and I am already knitting a merino and angora circular shawl to wrap the newborn in, but have decided to crochet a soft blanket as well for the cot.

I chose a new yarn made of bamboo and cotton, 50% of each from Patons. On the wash label it says that it is made in Romania, and I thought how strange to have the wool processed there.

When I was having my babies in the eighties, there were many orphaned babies living in crowded and very poor conditions in Romanian hospitals. A couple of families I knew from our Montessouri preschool flew to Romania and adopted some children, and brought them back here to live in NZ. I wonder if conditions have changed for homeless infants and children in Romania.

All babies everywhere need a nice soft blanket they can call their own!

Here it is in the making

Yesterday after another gruelling session at the dentist, I arrived home still shaking and feeling very sorry for myself, to find a Christmas parcel in my letterbox.

This was a Christmas treat that I had sent to myself, but it came as an unexpected delight yesterday!

A box of beautiful Rowan DK cottons in my favorite colours....yay!!!!

I sat down immediately with a pot of tea and a pattern in my head, and crocheted quite happily for a couple of hours, forgetting all about the pain in my tooth.until Ian came home and said " have we time for a walk up the hill before tea"?

We have a hill behind our house, which Ian is continually clearing of gorse and thistle. It is his work of a lifetime. Yesterday as we trudged up the hill, Ian was slashing thistle and little gorse bushes as we went, with a few hints to me about doing the same. Pity we only have the one slasher! It makes for a good workout though. Next time I might pop the camera in my pocket and take some pics of the view to post.