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I finished!

This week I overheard someone in the office talking about how this woman was crocheting these adorable little sleep sacks for her baby.  I thought, first of all, that's adorable!  Second of all, I am so not crafty!!!!  And third of all, maybe I could be crafty.  So the mulling began.  Oddly when I got home from work that day Justin said to me, "I know this is kind of weird, and you can totally shoot this down if you want, but I thought it might be fun if we learned to crochet together."  What?!?!?  If that's not crazy, I don't know what is.  The idea came and went early in the week, and although we talked about acting on it, we never actually did anything about it until.......

......Friday.  On Friday we met our friends Jack and Stephanie in Springfield for lunch.  We arrived a little early, so Justin and I stepped into a store next door called Bella Baby.  I was in some sort of baby coma and couldn't stop oohing and aahing over everything.  And then it happened, I turned into a puddle when I saw this baby hat that had been crocheted to look like a cupcake.  Very similar to the one below.



Can you say adorable?  I absolutely positively LOVE.THIS.HAT.  So, the procrastinating was over.  On Friday night Justin and I put on our crafty pants and headed to Michael's to pick up an extensive list of supplies.  1.  Crochet hook.  2.  Yarn.  Done and done.  We got home and settled in on the couch to consult our most faithful of educators, Youtube.

I'm not going to say that we din't get frustrated a bit, but by the time we went to bed we had learned the basics of how to crochet and felt pretty good about how we had progressed.

I am pretty much incapable of sleeping in on the weekends, but you better believe that I enjoy waking up naturally rather than to the sound of an annoying alarm clock.  At 6:30 on Saturday morning my eyes popped open and my first thought was, "Coffee!"  That's typically my first thought of the day, but my second thought was perhaps a bit more noteworthy, "I can't wait to keep learning to crochet."  I got out of bed and bustled out of my bedroom when I remembered that I had started to learn to knit back in December and had never even finished that project!  My mother-in-law, Kelli, is a knitting fool and she taught me and Julia to knit over the holidays.  After recalling that I hadn't yet finished the scarf I started, that became my goal for the day.  Finishing!  Gotta get one thing done before starting something new.  So I did!  I finished the scarf, and I think it looks pretty good!  It's pictured below in the top two photos.  The bottom two pictures show the scarf that is my practice crochet piece before I move on to something more difficult as I learn to crochet. 



My goal is to work up to the sweet cupcake hat pictured above and have that finished by the time Via joins us around October 25.  I can't wait to meet our little cupcake!  :)

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  1. MederFam5August 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM



    Kelli Hayo Mederich and Serena Harris Ervin like this..





    Julia Mederich your crochet scarf looks amazing.

    July 22 at 8:48pm · Like.




    Theresa Gerdes Love seeing what you guys are up to :) I have yarn and a crochet hook on my dresser that may one day turn into a blanket :)

    July 22 at 9:40pm · Like · 1

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  2. MederFam5August 28, 2012 at 5:04 PM







    Whitney Mullet Tedersposted toRobyn Fisk Mederich

    July 22





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    you inspire me robyn; i love your blog lol. i do not think i had nearly as many deep thoughts about my little cupcake before she was born. i am very glad that you are one who can ponder things in her heart like Mary and share the wonderful significance of it with the Lord. i also am terrible at making friends. this is why i have kelsey and jamie. love you guys, and LOVE the nickname Via.

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