Rainbows

It's snowing. Again. I very nearly got stuck in the car this afternoon and was late picking up Bella from school. I don't know about you but I am desperate for some colour and light and warmth. And I thought a colourful post might be just what we all need right now. It is bitterly cold, the temperature hardly seems to get above freezing and the skies are so grey. You know what I really, really want to do? I want to open all the windows really wide and prop open the kitchen door and feel a warm breeze wafting through the house. I want to smell cut grass and flowers and hear the buzz of bees...spring, come soon, please.

Such a nice thing happened a couple of weeks ago and I completely forgot to tell you about. I admired a skirt I saw on an blog, and my blogging friend Mel from Coal Valley View happened to see my comment. She sent me a lovely email out of the blue saying her daughter had outgrown that very same skirt and, as she had no use for it, she would be happy to send it to me. How lovely! I said yes please and a week later a beautiful rainbow skirt came all the way from Tazmania for Bella. It's long and swishy and perfect for summer. Mel, thank you so much. One of the many reasons I love blogging so much is the way you can connect and form friendships with people on the other side of the world who you would otherwise never meet.

In other rainbow news, the blanket continues:

I had a bit of a nightmare with the green yarn. I ordered all the cotton yarn ages ago and was a bit unsure of the shades of green I'd chosen but didn't have the energy to keep searching. It'll be fine, I thought. Then the yarn arrived, and I was even more unsure of my selection - they were too bright, too khaki. Horrid. Stupidly, I made up my little granny squares anyway and thought to myself once they are all together it will look fine. But it looked worse. I ordered some more cotton yarn in different shades of green from another website. The post office are "unable to locate" that parcel. So on Saturday morning I drove over to my nearest yarn shop and prayed that they would have some acceptable green cotton yarn that I could use. Luckily they did. I made more squares with the new shades of green. Such a difference. I am happy. The "wrong" greens are in the left hand picture and the "right" shades are the right hand picture above. It's still not perfect but a it's big improvement. The moral is - if you think the colour is horrible when you buy the yarn, the colour will still be horrible when you've crocheted it.

All the squares are now joined together and the ends woven in and the next step is to crochet a nice border. A simple one I think, as the blanket has quite a busy, colourful pattern. 

And now I have to tackle this particular rainbow pile...