Grandchildren

I am so thrilled to be a grandmother. I cherish every hug and kiss I get from those little ones. My oldest granddaughter is 4 and very smart and fashion conscious. She’s long limbed and very tall for her age. I made her mother a scarf not too long ago. I used Yarn Been Hollywood Special Effects which I believe has been discontinued. Unfortunately I don't have the color name or number. The yarn was given to me by a someone I know after I returned from Iraq. I can’t say I was thrilled with it initially because it is an odd mix of eyelash, ribbon, and chenille, but the colors are beautiful. Bright pink, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue. I was concerned that it would be difficult to crochet, but it was very smooth. I particularly liked the eyelash portion of it.

But I digress. I had a bit left over when I finished my DIL’s scarf, so I used it to make a very short one for grandbaby #1. Actually I thought I had enough yarn to complete hers but couldn’t find that last skein so it was not as long as I would have liked. She immediately put it around her neck and tied it in place. I was pretty impressed that she knew enough to do that.

I was looking for something in my stash and found that last skein so I immediately set about fixing my error by crocheting her a new, much longer scarf. Here it is almost finished. I used a K hook.

I measured it against her and she pronounced the length of the scarf “pertet” so I finished it off and wove in the leftover yarn. I showed her how to wrap it around her neck, and she proceeded to show me the proper way, tying it in a “pertet” knot.

I apologize for the bad picture. I'm going to have to work on that.