(60"x 45" approx. finished size)
It seems that time has caught up with me though and the price for homeschooling is time. Yet the awakened feeling of doing things I haven't done in say...10-12 yrs is so strange and good for me.
I started a beautiful afghan 12 yrs. ago, made 11 squares for it and took a year break. Sometime after that I had my first born and it has been kept in a storage bin until last week. I pulled it out and took a good look at it. I have forgotten quite a bit about crocheting and oh, if only you could see some of my crosstitching patterns! But it's coming back to me little by little and just yesterday as I listened to another homeschooling mom talk to me during P.E class I figured out how to do the leaves on the roses.
I need to make 12 more of these to complete the afghan. Perhaps the thought of how pretty it will look on my recliner and the thought of having made it myself will keep me going. One day I would like to teach my girls how to crochet and how to crosstitch.
It's been about two weeks now since we started getting up at 6:45 am and now 6:30 am. We slept in during summer but now need to get back to out routine. We started getting up this early last school year to avoid the little ones during our busy school work and it worked beautifully for us. So for the last two weeks we have read, prepared school stuff, etc. during our morning hours. I'm really a morning person and have really enjoyed this. I may start school next week, but I covet the extra time I've had to do little things here and there.
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THAT is a beautiful block! I hope you'll share a photo of the completed afghan as well. I, too, had put all my sewing and crocheting aside when the children came along. I had begun a blanket for my first born, and finally finished it two years ago--he's 18 now, so I gave it to my youngest (8) because of the duckies and sailboats on it. LOL! Since then I've made two more afghans, and I'm a little over halfway through my third. I've also gotten back into sewing clothing and quilts--I've made lots of dresses and curtains, but haven't finished a full quilt yet. I will, though. ;-)
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