my mom loved to crochet

All my life she would crochet blankets, in fact almost everywhere I go now I find these blankets.

Typically it went like this: 

I would invite a friend over, they would see her crocheting a blanket..

They would comment on what she was doing and how much they liked the blanket. She would have them "pick a color". The wool would arrive. She would tell me it's "so-and-so's blanket".

About 8 weeks later I would get a call about how the blanket was ready.

I'm telling you her blankets are everywhere. I have at least 3. Each one of her friends has at least one. Each one of my friends has one - some of them have two. My cousins have them in Spain. My mothers hairdresser, a few clients if you knew her - you likely gotta blanket.

She was working on a blanket when she was diagnosed and she was not able to complete it, but she was able to crochet dishrags for a few years after. Here is the evolution of the dishrags. They went from "squares" to really random shapes.

I truly believe that many of my friends were disappointed when she got sick as they knew they were going to lose their connection to her dishrags. They were THAT GOOD! haha.

I shot this video on a train in Spain in August of 2008 when she was full steam ahead. The later photos are what they led to.