Popcorn and shells

No, the title doesn't refer to eating - you'll see.
No quilting getting done right now - just finishing up some little things and cutting fabric for the baby rag quilt. Slow going but, I am crocheting while watching TV. My brother's eldest daughter is due any day and so I thought I would do some crocheting. I have been itching to work on something in the evenings and so I borrowed some books from the library.

This book had...

this pattern and so I bought some white yarn (my stash didn't have any) to make...

this. I have 23 completed rows and I need 74 so I have to purchase at least one more ball of the white.

Here's a close-up of the shell stitch. It's nice to know that I can still read and follow a pattern. Other than making some berets for my daughter the last couple of years, I haven't done any crocheting for a very long time.

It's nice to know I kept my patterns from way back.

It had this little dress pattern done in the popcorn stitch.

I still have the dress and it's waiting for a little girl to wear - sometime in the future. I used two colours because I was short of the pink. It's about 30 years old. I have other things that I have made and kept to hand down but I can't find them yet.

Another old pattern. I did make both of these sweaters in the exact same colours too - probably around the same time. The peach sweater and hat set I crocheted (not the bootees) but only the yellow sweater was knit. I don't know if these two will ever show up. They were made of Phentex - soft, cotton yarn not the stringy nylon stuff that Phentex was famous for. Finding these patterns and looking through them, remembering that I actually did make these, gives me hope that I will be able to read a knitting pattern once again...
Stay tuned.