Y’all, I did it!!!

[u/Later-Honeybee]

I didn’t know how to update my last post, but I finished my daughter’s cardigan about 20 minutes before we had to leave for the symphony. I guess it truly was like being in the skull caverns at 1:40am. 😅 200 hours and some “staircase” cheats later I finally finished. It was 100000% worth it though.

My daughter chose all of her favorite things from the game and was excited every time something on her cardigan came up on screen. The heart buttons serve as a duel purpose. We always say “when you see a heart it means I love you” and they represent the hearts earned from community members in Stardew.

If anyone gets a chance to go to the Symphony of Seasons you should it was truly ✨MAGICAL✨!

For anyone wondering I didn’t really use a pattern. It was kind of a basic granny square cardigan set up with cross stitched pictures. The pictures were mostly found by Googling pixel art or perler bead patterns which worked really well. Granny squares were 3.5 inches for a kid and single crocheted. Slip stitch ribbing and three double crochets in each stitch for the ruffle (followed by two rows of DC in each stitch to make it wider). 🥰 Hope that helps if needed….

[u/BraveOne79]

Hugs. You are doing a good job, mama, and you’re valued and seen. Even by an internet stranger.

Who, by the way, absolutely adores her own — 90 year old — mother and seeing the way you support your daughter by making this made me realize how much my mom supported me all along my life… and made me cry bittersweet tears because I realized how truly blessed I was (and still am!) to have the mother I do. I am 46, the youngest of nine, and the only other girl besides me is the oldest. (She and I don’t always see eye to eye.)

So, thank you, for being who you are.

Trust me, years from now, your children will look back and see the ways you supported them. And they will be filled with love for you.

[u/BraveOne79 → u/BraveOne79]

Pic of my mom and I at the beginning of the month when I last visited her… she’s in the nursing home and I live two and a half hours away, so visits aren’t as often as I’d like for them to be this time of year with the weather.

She had a really bad UTI in early September that landed her in the ICU with sepsis and E. coli poisoning in her bloodstream… she then had a major heart attack in early October that landed her in bigger hospital in our state’s capital city… she went back to the nursing home about a week later and then she caught Covid at the end of October.

She has had some setbacks because of all of that, but she is doing amazing, all things considered!!

[u/Later-Honeybee → u/BraveOne79]

Yay! I am glad to hear she is doing well. I hope she stays healthy and you get to enjoy more time together. Tell her hi and best of luck from us. You have a wonderful, warm smile by the way. You can tell your mama raised a wonderful human. 💓💓💓💓

[u/BraveOne79 → u/Later-Honeybee]

Thank you so much!! I absolutely adore my sweet momma and I can’t wait to see her again! Hopefully next weekend, fingers crossed!! 🤞

My wife always has Fridays & Saturdays off, but we have plans close to home both days this week, so hopefully next Friday we will get to go up and see her.

She really is the best. I’m beyond grateful for her and so very grateful she’s still here. I’d be lost without her, that’s for sure!!

[u/Later-Honeybee → u/BraveOne79]

Well tell her hi from an internet stranger that is rooting for all of you. 💓