Eileen is the older sister of a classmate of mine, many moons ago. Eileen took a crochet class I was teaching, and we have become friends. Two or three years ago, she quit her job, left her home in Colorado behind, and came home to care for her mother, who is now in end-stage Alzheimer’s.

As I sat and watched her while she talked just a little bit about her mother, and I listened to the pain in her voice, I knew a comfortghan was the right thing to do.

I mentioned in the VCFC group that I felt the need to make a comfortghan, and why, and two other friends there jumped right in and made over half these squares. They made them and mailed them immediately, both of them. Without them, I’d still be slogging along trying to make enough squares, but because they were SO helpful, and made such beautiful textured squares in all different colors, I was able to do the extra with them, as far as bordering each block, and now as of this moment, bordering the entire blanket.

I don’t know the exact date I started, but it looks like right around April 28th. Today is May 26th, so one month working on this, AND finishing 2 baby blankets. I’m playing with my loom knitting when I’m done with this.

• Yarns used: Lionbrand Vanna’s Choice
• Each square bordered with (1) sc in Midnight Blue, (2) Margaret MacInnis’ Canada Goose in Fisherman, and (3) sc in Midnight Blue.
• Join: Margaret MacInnis’ No-Hook-Out in Midnight Blue
• Outside border has the Canada Goose border in Midnight Blue, then an Edie Eckman border on the outside, I’ll have to find that book/number again later.