This weekend I finished up 5 projects!  One Linus Project Blanket, one Purrfect Pals cat blanket and 3 versions of the dishcloth I used for teaching the class from last years Workplace Giving Auction. One nice thing about teaching a class, it makes me dabble in writing patterns.  Writing a dishcloth pattern is pretty risk free!

The yarn for the 2 blankets are from the bags of yarn Marlene gave me.

Pet Sweater and Blanket

I found a new favorite site -- crochetkitten.com! It has many pet items but also other free patterns. As you can see by the picture, Baby was NOT the model for the sweater. I knew I would never get her in it and I didn't want to cover it in cat fur -- any more than it is just by my working on it!

I used Sensations Multi-Brite for the center of the sweater and blanket and trimmed it with Lion Brand Jiffy Wine.

I bought the Wine colored yarn to help fill out the second Linus project blanket I made. I bought a second skein of the Sensations yarn when I realized I did not have enough for the blanket and learned my lesson about buying enough at the same time because the dye lots were VERY different.

So, I tore out the additional rows. So then it was too small, so I edged

it with the Jiffy yarn. It was not very easy to find a color that went with the yarn, Jiffy was the best match.I double-crocheted onthe short ends and singled across the sides that were ok.