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Last Month

The first project I completed in February was this big beautiful basket made from thrifted baby boucle yarns.

I crocheted a much smaller basket to hold the wipes I use for my glasses following this slightly confusing free pattern from Yarnspirations.

I finished crocheting the Iris throw.

As threatened, I made a second big beautiful basket from thrifted baby bouncle yarns, which I still dislike but don't hate as much as I did in the past. :)

I made a mystery pattern that a friend challenged me to try, which I finished in five days while using worsted yarn. After seeing the results she told me it's the trendy 6 day star blanket. Oops.

I crocheted about one third to one half of a straight granny stitch throw I'm making in forest colors (I'm not sure how large I want to make it yet.)

To wrap up the month I finished the crazy quilt tote for February of my 2026 calendar project. The patchwork is 100% recovered vintage scraps, and the feather stitching is in silver, gold and dark copper braided metallic thread that I picked up at the quilt show last year.

Ready, set, let's go March!

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