Tribute to a mum

My best friend's mum died earlier this year after a short period of illness. My friend is an only child and so the burden of clearing the house has fallen to her. As an avid knitter (and hoarder) her mum had left close to a hundred part used balls of wool leftover from the many projects she'd completed. She kept all the oddments as, also being an animal lover, she would use them to make blankets to give to the animal shelter.

My friend loves crafting but we've never persuaded her to knit or crochet, but she was loathed to throw away or donate the wool as, unlike so many of the other posessions, the yarn held a significance for her. She gave me the stash and asked me to make something for her to remember her mum by. This was a great honour as well as responsibility and I was determined to find a pattern worthy of the task. After much searching I found the ideal crochet pattern on ravelry called flowers in the snow

I decided early on not to try and colour match the blanket but to randomly chose three colours for each of the 120 circles and tie them togther with a neutral beige wool. It has been liberating putting together colours and ply that would not normally go but somehow do work together. I hope will it have it finished by her birthday in two weeks time, as it will be her first since her mum's death and I hope in some way having the blanket will bring comfort and good memories of her.

I also wanted this to be my first blog post as my way of paying tribute to her and would love to hear about any craft projects you have made in memory of another.