COVID LOCKDOWN PROJECT NUMBER TWO

My Covid yarny projects have concentrated on using up what bits and pieces I have managed to gather together from previous projects completed over the years.

The first one was all the bright colours.

This final one was to group together all the softer colours and included some quite small bits to use 

so a different design was formulating in my head.

First I made some solid, 4 round squares - three of each colour where possible but totaling approximately 30 squares in all. 

With the first ten I then crocheted a fifth round in cream, 

sewed them together, then crocheted around the whole thing  in cream then added a few stripes of   pink on each side.

Then I moved on to the mossy green for a few rows making the bottom of the blanket pink.

The next row was made up of multi-coloured, 4 round squares using the small quantities of four colours for each square.

I then crocheted a final row on each square with green, then sewed them together and added a few rows of green and cream on either side.

Moving up towards the top I introduced a bit of purple ...

before adding another row of solid squares surrounded by blue this time.

There were now some very tiny bits of lots of colours left and lots of white scraps so they made up the next major row of squares , 

Using all the bits of the other colours and cream I crocheted several rows to link them together. 

Then I joined the two sections together.

Things were now getting a bit desperate yarn-wise .

The final row of solid squares were joined with what little pink was left.

It didn't go very far !

Luckily the lockdown is easing and in order to finish the rug I had to take myself off to Spotlight to try and match the colours to finish off the rug.

Of course there was no pink of the same colour but a slightly darker shade seemed OK and that and a ball of blue and two balls of cream came home with me - all  at sale price !

I joined the final  section to the rest of the rug and finished off with a few rows of cream, blue and the new dark pink.

Yes, that's sort of how I had planned it to look.

Now for the finishing touch - the border.

A couple of rounds of cream to pull it all together and try to fix any wonkiness caused by yarns of different thickness although they were all the same ply

then

A bit of blue - enough for once around.

A bit of dark pink - enough for once around

and a final round of cream shells

AND ALL THOSE ENDS TO BE SEWN IN 

and the final finished product

TA DAH !

What's next ?

Cheers.

PANDEMIC DIARY - FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

An item from Facebook in May 2020

Covid Virus Pandemic 2020

* Prime Minister Scott Morrison started lockdown on the evening of 22nd of March, 2020 with non-essential services including pubs, clubs and restaurants closed
* Later that week, states shut their borders to non-essential travellers.
* By end of March more severe restrictions were put in place, including the two-person rule and a law banning people from being outside their homes except for four essential reasons (work, groceries, exercise and medical reasons).
* The Queen addressed her nation at 8pm on 5th April

* Community support groups established, to support the vulnerable, elderly, immunocompromised and people in enforced isolation due to exposure, in their community
* Schools in NSW and Victoria closed as education departments implement new procedures to deal with the spread of coronavirus. Remote learning in place
* Self-distancing measures required
* Limited shopping hours, therefore, lineups outside the store doors
* Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed People who can work from home
* Olympics postponed to 2021.
* Concerts tours festivals entertainment events cancelled
* Family celebrations holiday gatherings cancelled
* No masses, churches are closed
* No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, then 10 or more. Now, Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home bubble
* Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and all other TV networks are on in every home daily now
* Weekly tradition in UK, every Thursday 8pm #ClapForKeyWorkers campaign, to recognise the efforts of the NHS workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic every day
* Children's outdoor play parks are closed
* Manufacturers and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks hand sanitizer and PPE
* Fines are established for breaking lockdown rules
* Press conferences daily from the PM and other government officials. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths
* People wearing masks and gloves outside
* Essential service workers are terrified to go to work
* In England 99 year old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore raised £29 million for NHS charities walking 100 lengths of his garden before he turned 100. His target was £1000. People from all over the world donated to his cause.
* We celebrated Anzac Day at dawn on our driveways

* 6th April Beaches around Australia have started to close.

* Petrol price close to home was $1.02.

* Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (1.5mtrs) from each other.

* Parks trails, entire cities closed or restricted to locals only in their bubble.

* Entire sports seasons cancelled.

* Weddings & funerals limited to less than 10 attendants,

* We are to distance from each other. Shortage of masks gowns gloves for our front-line workers.

* Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill in many parts of the world.

* Refrigerated trucks for the dead outside hospitals in the USA Italy Spain China and more.

* Panic buying sets in and we have limits on toilet paper disinfecting supplies, paper towels, staple foods hand sanitizer then alcohol

* Stadiums and recreation facilities overseas open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.

* Rescued stranded tourists to self isolate in city hotels.

* Government incentives to stay home. Barely anyone on the roads Rescue in the form of $$ for those made redundant, or business to stay afloat and renters to remain in their homes.

* Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families or evicted by housemates.

*206,725 deaths globally so far and rising.
* This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, WHO declared March 11th, 2020.

Why, you ask, do I write this status?

One day it will show up in my memory feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted

We have so much!

Be thankful. Be grateful

Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone

We are all one!