Well done!!!! Does the rose wine help?!!?
I am glad I could do something that had meaning for him but it was so sad to see him like a child with a Linus blanket.
Just count loudly at whoever tries to interrupt youno, and people passing and then trying to engage me in a conversation is a bit of a nightmare
Have you thought about making him a fiddle blanket?I took one of my Paradise Squares to show my Mum - my Dad grabbed it and decided it was his, stroking and poking his fingers under the petals. He even used it as a coaster so I have left that one with him
not even in tea. I have made him smoothies and added things like spironella. He really doesn't like anything new which given his condition isn't surprising.
It's a shame he won't try different things. Although that's true for many elderly people, with or without medical /mental issues!I'd just said to Martin that I should make him a lap blanket for his birthday. He does seem to like bright colours. I have a pattern for "every stitch under the hook" or I may try Tunisian Crochet which I've never done. ........ also I will get bright variegated yarn to save a lot of end weaving. It looks like the Paradise Coverlets will be taking a back seat.
He doesn't like milk
I think I have just completed square number one (from a stack of yarn my daughter was keen to be rid of) which will be made into - erm - something like a knee warmer for me in the van. Suddenly blocking looks like a plan... even if I have just smoothed it a lot. The flower bit was alarmingly bibbly bobbly until I did the outside rows.The difference between blocked and unblocked squares:
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I may stitch down the petals but I'm not sure yet. I'm just making the squares to try out the pattern and to use up the baby yarn - it will make a small Linus blanket.
EDIT: I think my "travelling project" will be enough of these squares to make two single bedcovers for our guest room. The colours will be orange, white, electric blue and possibly dark green or brown for the centre. I'm not sure if the petals should be white or orange (or different shades of red through orange to yellow if I can get variegated yarn in those colours). I usually only have one project on the go at a time but know I will get bored if I have to make so many squares. I have not yet calculated how many I will need - or how much yarn.
Pretty colours
Thank you. Pattern is African flower, and yarn is a gift from youngest daughter who has given up crochet for making resin key rings and jewellery. Like these ...Sus3v love the pattern and the colours
Hehe. Daughters! Gotta love’ ’em though. Agree about the skulls, Nancy has spent months getting them right (admirable) but I still don’t like them. I much prefer her pendants, which are simple, but preferable (in my old person’s
My father had Alzheimers combined with Oesophageal Cancer at the end and when he got to the point of not being able to swallow, my Mother stopped cooking for herself. She said it was cruel to have lovely cooking smells in the house when he couldn't eat any of it, she never cooked again even after he died, and now in a dementia care home herself has lost so much weight that sometimes its hard to see how she can still be alive let alone able to shuffle around.I took one of my Paradise Squares to show my Mum - my Dad grabbed it and decided it was his, stroking and poking his fingers under the petals. He even used it as a coaster so I have left that one with him
(for those who don't know my Dad is in the later stages of complex dementia and has good and bad days - yesterday was quite good as he'd had a shower, clean clothes neck to toes and he recognised me but couldn't remember my name - but that's okay). I'd bought sandwiches for us all at M&S on Newcastle station as I change trains there. Dad said there was too much for him to eat (I cut all into dainty size bites and placed selections on individual plates to stop him fingering and opening every sandwich) but he ate everything on his plate and took some of my Mum's when he thought she didn't see. His appetite has been awful and he has lost a lot of weight so I was pleased to see him eat and enjoy. Mum has lost some of the joy on cooking as it is not appreciated and so even when tasty it doesn't always look attractive.
No, its done as normal pieces, back and 2 sides, but the sleeves are picked up from the back and front armholes and then knitted down to the cuff.
Sunsets and Sand Jacket / DROPS 212-18 - Free knitting patterns by DROPS Design
Knitted jacket with moss stitch and V-neck in DROPS Big Delight and DROPS Melody. Size XS–XXL.www.garnstudio.com
I was thinking to make it in Rose Garden
and Off WhiteDROPS Design
DROPS Melody - A luxurious mix of merino wool and brushed alpaca
DROPS Melody is a soft and luxurious yarn made from superfine alpaca and merino wool. Warm and with a mohair-like look, it’s available in a sophisticated...
The yarns are used together, so both strands.
Not sure if I will make 9 or 12 blocks, it will probably depend on how much yarn I have left when I have completed the 9 blocks. If I don't have enough for 12 I can make some cushion covers to go with the lapghan. 
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