Crochet

When I was little my grandmother taught me some basic knitting, and by the time I was a teenager, I had asked for a sewing machine for my 15th birthday and had gone to some crochet classes at the local yarn shop a block away from our home in La Plata. But I have never been very good at it! Since having our two boys, however, I pushed myself to learn some more to be able to offer them some home made toys and blankets. Here are some of my projects:

When I first gave this little dinosaur to Nikolay during the pandemic, he almost had tears because it was so disappointingly small! Then came the bigger animals… a bigger Dino and the Whales following my friend Kai’s makings:

And then I joined Annie’s club and over the next few years made what’s now our favorite blanket