The phrase that came up this week was “yarn balls.” Every knitter has ‘em, so here’s a picture of mine.

I had trouble recruiting a human “volunteer” for the photo.

I decided to start a donation project and found that the Children’s Hospital in our area needs preemie items. This set is crochet using two different yarns. The yellow is “Pound of Love” by Lion Brand and the blue “tweed” is by Plymouth. There is a blanket, a hat, and booties which are all stitched with single crochet. The blanket stitch is single crochet in the front and the next stitch single crochet in the back. I repeated this for the whole blanket. I hope to be able to get a set done every month to be able to send to the hospital.

With pleating in the back, this cape will fit a toddler and, with pleating taken out, will fit an adult. This is a great cape for anyone to grow with!

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This is an easy knit scarf that is good for practicing increases and decreases.

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I couldn’t resist creating this sweater for my guinea pig… not that he really needs one!

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