09-04-2023

My hexagon granny square baby blanket.

09-25-2023

I made this for a cousin’s daughter. He and his wife are from the Milwaukee area and live there.

The colors are Milwaukee-themed, in two ways!

First, sportsball:

• The green and yellow is for the Bucks (and I started this after the Deer won the NBA championship).
• The blue and yellow is for the Brewers (and perhaps Marquette University)
• If you squint and are willing to call that “gold”: the green and gold for the Packers (who used to play in Milwaukee, remember that?). And maybe I’ll add a black border and you can do yellow/gold and black for the UW-Milwaukee Panthers?

Second, nature:

• The cream/yellow color represents the cream-colored bricks made from the land under Milwaukee: https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/cream-city-brick/ (That’s the source of Milwaukee’s “Cream City” nickname.)
• The blue represents the water of Lake Michigan.
• The green represents the verdant land -- the good land, as Alice Cooper famously taught us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FT3IGXtAk

Related, check out the lovely People’s Flag of Milwaukee: https://milwaukeeflag.com/ (and because I live in Madison, let me brag about our great flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Madison,_Wisconsin)

09-27-2023

Public link for sharing: https://imgur.com/a/IU0obbm