a tut that's not a tut...

a friend asked if I could explain how to do that blanket that keeps popping up all over the place

there's a chart but it's of no help

so I thought I'd maybe show it this way

and while I'm at it

show you too, incase it's something you might want to do it too

I'm not sure what the pattern is called

but I keep seeing it and people keep asking about it...

I posted it on Facebook too

and will load it onto flickr

it's quite an old pattern

so have no idea where it comes from

it isn't hard ...

it's  worked in the second row below and in between the stitches

so you have to concentrate for the first couple of rows

after that it's all good!!

I used those colours so one can see what's what

that's one of the reasons I'm not that fond of this blanket

I don't like the colours used and therefore it doesn't "speak" to me

AND

it looks very very '70's

and not the cool/groovy side !!!!!!!



so if I'm stepping on anyone's toes

let me know

and I'll act accordingly....

and on a completely different subject....

have any of you here in the US noticed a lack of something this year????

have you noticed there are

NO ACORNS

not ONE

after the last couple of years when it was hazardous to walk outside

there is a lack of these little flying projectiles

I looked it up and came across

 this

poor little squirrels...ours feed from the bird feeder...

but it is really interesting and I just hope it's a natural cycle thingy and not some horrible

catastrophic end of the world thing.....

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