A new project!

Right. Just what I need. A new project. Well, while I've been trying to enter all my magazines into a database, I came across a pattern that I've really been wanting to do for a long time – since 1982! It's the Poinsettias in the Snow tree skirt in McCall's Design Ideas No. 9, Christmas Knit and Crochet. While it calls for Brunswick Windrush (is that even made still?), I'm doing mine in Bernat Baby Coordinates: Baby Pink, Mint Green, and White and calling it Pale Poinsettias in the Snow tree skirt. These soft pastels will go perfectly under my white tree with old world glass ornaments and colored lights. Plus, Windrush was a worsted weight acrylic yarn while Baby Coordinates is a #3 light acrylic yarn. I'm using a Susan Bates US G6/4.00mm aluminum hook instead of an I (6.00mm) hook – so the squares wll be much smaller (as is fitting with a 4 foot tall tree). I've completed 48 of the 120 little pink centers of the granny squares as of this posting.

I'm still working on my Cowl and am just about finished with the first skein. It's so pretty and isn't curling up as much as it was earlier on. Tunisian crochet will do that, you know. I just have to decide if I want to use the whole second skein on it or just part of the skein.