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Tragedy and afghans

12:28 PM, Saturday 27 January 2007 .. Posted in The craft box for knit, crochet and sewing .. 2 comments .. Link

Tragedy:
Back on Dec 31, a friend of mine was in an accident with her husband and 4 small boys. Their 2 yr old and the youngest (in the photo), died from his
injuries on January 5. A sad time for us all. But especially his family left to grieve. I wanted to do something for my friend and her family. I made many frozen meals. But that just didn't hardly seem enough.

Afghans:
My friend, Marcia suggested and afghan. So with the help of Marcia , MamaBear and LucyBug.org and their readers/knitters, I am putting together an afghan for them. We are knitting 7 inch squares. I have knit several squares and others are starting to come in. People knit so much faster than I do! But I'm running after 5 small children and pregnant to boot. So my time is limited to mostly late night knitting when the children are in bed. Here a few pictures of the ones I have done so far.

I will be doing many more in the darker blue and green as well. Just haven't gotten that far yet. I'm trying some fun eyelet patterns. The old seed stitch garter stitch just gets old. I got both of the eyelet patterns you see in the photos from Lionbrand.com. That is not the brand of yarn I am using though at the moment. So far the light green is the only Lion Brand yarn I've knit for this project. But it's awefully thin compared to the rest. The cream is Bernat and the other dark blue is Caron yarn.
I haven't knit anything that needed to be a specific size before. So this has been a challenge. I think I'm getting the hang of it now though.
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8:55 PM, Saturday 27 January 2007 .. Posted by Anonymous
Continuing to pray for Aaron's family and those who knew and loved him.

Your squares look really nice! I'm amazed at how much you have done with 5 littles and one on the way.

Our squares should arrive tomorrow or Monday. I forgot to include a postcard or anything about where they were from, I was just trying to hurry and get them packed up before mail time.

Mama Bear

I am so sorry

9:38 PM, Tuesday 30 January 2007 .. Posted by KrisM
I am so sorry for the loss of this sweet little one. You all are in my prayers.

The Lord's blessings,
Kris M.

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