Recovery Blanket

Hi everyone!  I'm back (minus a few parts) and my surgery went well.   This process of healing is very slow, and I can see that I will have to muster up some patience and take it easy.  I have lots of help at home though, and friends have been bringing over meals and flowers.  It's sure nice to be pampered this way!

When I went into the hospital it was raining all week.  Since coming home spring has arrived and it's glorious!  I love sitting outside on the deck chair listening to the birds, wrapped in my new blanket.

I really thought it was going to be my ripple (it's almost done) that would be my blankie of comfort during my recovery.  But I zoomed right through this one and finished it up a few days ago.  Really the title of this post should be  "Crocheting yourself to distraction, while under the influence of narcotic drugs".  I'm surprised it isn't full of mistakes.

It sits on my lap nicely while I'm laying on the couch, and comes outside with me for coffee in the morning.  It's a very agreeable kind of blanket.

I worked on it when I went to the hospital for an outpatient procedure just before my surgery, and I  took it to the hospital when I went back last week.  It has been my constant companion since I came home, just me and blanket, hooking, hooking, hooking, in between dozing on the couch.  We have been through a lot together, this blanket and me.

Here is the recipe for the recovery blanket:

Pattern: Dottie Angel's  Ordinarily Extraordinary Blanket
Yarn:  Patons Canadiana Acrylic
Hook: Size 4.5mm
Joined each row with single crochet.  Border is two rounds of sc, then one round of dc, ch1, dc......

 Time for a nap now.  Toodles.