I Have a Chair!!

For the last fourteen years,I have lived without a living room chair. In my previous house I had a sectional sofa so I really didn't need a chair. In this house however, I only have a regular size sofa and no chairs. I don't get much company since I moved away from everyone, but when I do, I have to bring kitchen chairs into the living room. Well, after receiving my tax refund last month, I decided it's time to buy a chair. I picked out a rocker, recliner Lazy Boy. It's one of their smaller models, but it fits me perfectly! It's a deep green and goes well with my "greenish, brownish" sofa. I can sit and crochet while the afternoon sun filters in through my window. I watch the birds flitting back and forth from the tall evergreen tree right outside my window to the feeder. It's so cozy and relaxing rocking and crocheting the afternoon away. Here are the "before" and "after" pictures.

New Afghan

Here's my latest ongoing project. It's a fun pattern to work. You basically just crochet single, half, double, treble, double, half, single stitches over and over to make the waves. Each colored row is separated by a single crochet row. You use the same color for this row to separate the "wave" colors. It's done as a scrap afghan, but I didn't have enough leftover yarns to do it that way, so I bought colors that I thought would be fun to work with. These bright colors match absolutely nothing in my house, but it will still be nice and warm to curl up under. That's the nice thing about crocheting an afghan in the winter, it keeps you warm while you're working on it. I have three almost full skeins of the colored yarns left, so I'll just keep working on it until I use up all the yarn. It will be interesting to see how big it turns out. Besides, anything that keeps my hands busy also keeps me from eating!!