A few weeks ago one of our service providers invited me and the Engineer to a dinner and wine tasting hosted at a beautiful boutique hotel very close by. Yes, please! As it happens at the end of the year, however, the Engineer was summoned to another province at a moment’s notice leaving me by my lonesome as a single parent to the lilliputians for a few days. He was however kind enough to organise that his parents do grandparent duty for one evening, leaving me to still attend the event. I did however not feel like going solo. I tried a few colleagues but they could not make it, and then I decided that the person who loves wine even more than me, is my dad. So with one phone call, I had a date.
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Today is going to be a “how-to” post of sorts, but also a bit of bragging. A project that I started with in July, is finally finished (a little more than five months later): two pixel blankets that I crocheted for two brand new brothers that came into this world in September. Each of these blankets consists of 324 granny squares.
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