i'm back!

Well hello there!

It has been a while, a long while. I stopped blogging over a year ago. It was not intentional to stop blogging but life got busy and exhausting and it was put on the back burner. Here is a short little story ....

 My last post was about about 17 months, and a lot has happened in those 17 months!

In November of 2012 I started a little project. My husband and I found out that we were expecting our first child. And I jumped right into this crochet blanket for the little one. Choosing gender neutral colors because we wanted to wait until the birth date to find out. (More about the blanket later.) Then life got busy preparing for the newest member of our family to arrive. Doctors appointments. Teaching. Searching and searching for a house we wanted to buy and move in before the due date in July 2013. And everything became a little exhausting and I didn't have the time or energy to blog. I did manage to make a few projects during that time though :). By this time the blanket I was working on was only about a 12 inches, just working on it here and there.

In April 2013 we finally found a house! We signed the papers and got the keys on the 12th. After painting and putting in new floors and other minor repairs (as me as a supervisor:)) we were going to move the last of our stuff into the new place before the first of May since our lease on our apartment was up.

On April 26th my husband and I went in for a routine doctors appointment. They determined that I was at risk for early labor and ordered me to bed rest in the hospital that day. So as I lay in bed family and friends packed up our things and hauled them over to our new place. So grateful for them!

Since I was bound to my hospital room I had plenty of time to finish that blanket! And I got about three quarters way done and then ran our of yarn! The yarn had to be ordered because the store was out. While waiting for the yarn to arrive I was sent home to spend the rest of my pregnancy at home. Well, seven days later our little boy B joined the world seven weeks early. He had to spend 3 weeks in the hospital and is now a perfectly healthy growing boy!

After adjusting to our new life I finally finished the blanket!

Whew! That took longer to say than expected! Thanks for sticking around! Now for some pics....

The pattern is a simple wave. Increasing stitches at the "peak" and decreasing stitches at the "valleys."

The yarn is I Love that Yarn and was purchased at Hobby Lobby.

Colors used:  Peacock
                     Aqua
                    White
                    Gray
                    Orange

After finishing the blanket, I made a plan to start blogging again, taking better pictures by learning how to use my camera, sew more, and learn new crafts along with a few other things. So, thanks for reading! I'm excited about what the future brings! :)

And the boy.... almost one year old!!