I Find Myself Struggling…

…not to start another new project. I already have three active projects that I’m working on and five in hibernation. Granted, they’re all big projects  but I started them and I have no room to keep trying to store them. Deities help me.

Out of Hibernation: Simple Baby Blanket

I always like to have an “emergency baby blanket” on hand in case I’m somehow invited to a baby shower and have no gifts to bring along. Since I gave my last one out a a few months ago, it’s time that I replace it and prepare for the next baby that comes along.

Honestly, after all the work I’ve been doing on other afghans, it’s nice to just relax with a mindless and speedy pattern.

Progress: 33/100

As promised, here are the progress pictures of my “10,000 Memories” blanket. Since taking these photos the other night, I have added two more complete rows and hope to finish row thirty-three this evening.

So far, I have joined 528/10,000 squares and it is already so heavy. I wish I had known that I’d wanted to enter it into the fair back when the weather was cold. Working on this baby in the heat is going to be awful, but showing it in May or June will make it all worthwhile.

The dark, wavy side is the back — please pardon all my tails! — and the front side just looks like a bunch of regular granny squares. It’s definitely my favorite piece that I’ve worked on in my twelve years of crocheting. I’m just not sure that I’ll ever want to make another masterpiece like this one in the future!

NO MORE ENDS!

I don’t know if this will be my final round of tying in squares for this afghan, but that’s a lot of squares. I just finished adding another 500 to the pile, and even though the total quantity easily exceeds 2000 squares, the pile is not as big as I would have expected. I plan on having 4 more rows to the actual afghan tonight before I post pictures. Onward and upward!

Productive may not be the right word…

I am currently sitting at my desk, surrounded by crochet hooks, empty soda cans (3 to be exact), a linguistics textbook, and a jury summons. The last 36 hours or so have been interesting. I honestly didn’t feel like getting anything done today. The apathy of spring break is just too hard to combat. I don’t know how I managed to get my classwork for tomorrow nearly done.

In my lollygagging to get my paper written, though, I managed to get a lot of crocheting done. I tied in at least 50-100 granny’s daughters today and managed to get 2 or 3 rounds on SO’s afghan done as well. Game of Thrones helped to keep the monotony of it all away for the first two hours of homework avoidance and then Food, Inc. and The Science of Sex kept me busy for the next 3. Somewhere between all of that video playtime, I was able to write up my assignment and work on my other linguistics homework, but overall, today was a crochet day with a dash of required work.

My guess is that I’ll start sewing granny’s daughters again within the next two days. I only have about 100 more that need their tails tied in and then I’m back to the fatigue of joining. If the darn thing wasn’t so heavy, it’d be different, but I’m only on row 26 and it’s already a monster of an afghan. I’m interested in weighing it once everything is joined. My guess is 5+ pounds, but we’ll have to see.

Until then, I am off to ignore student responsibility and enjoy Our America with Lisa Ling. Night!

Look at all those Grannies

In regard to granny squares and tying in ends, today was one heck of a day of progress.

Procrastination = Afghan Progress

I have a paper to turn in Wednesday evening. I haven’t even looked at the prompt, which I’ve had access to for nearly a month. So what have a been doing for the last few weeks? Working on all those granny squares, to be perfectly honest. Tonight I wanted a change in scenery (and change in monotony…) So far, this blanket for SO is about 50-55 rounds. I added 2-3 tonight and was excited to get to the next color change tonight. I wasn’t anticipating that. Hopefully, I can have this blanket to my guy by his birthday in midsummer, but we’ll have to see. Between school and work and side jobs, I don’t know that this stinking blanket will ever get finished. The last granny square afghan that I made was 100 rounds and took me 3 months. This one has to be larger to fit sweet (tall) SO’s bed.

The Weekend

Generally, the weekends contain my main chunks of time to work on projects, particularly large ones that I can’t tote around with me anymore due to their sizes. That being said, and this week being my spring break, I plan on knocking out some serious yarn work.

Those 499 granny’s daughters from Foto Friday — over one hundred of them got their tails tied in this weekend at SO’s house. Sometimes it’s just best for everyone that the boyfriend wants to play Skyrim. I plan on doing another 50 or so this evening before heading to bed. The more diversity I can get into my bag labeled “Tied-In Granny’s Daughters,” the better. I’d really like to enter this blanket into the county fair this year, but in order to that, I have got to get a move on.

Pictures soon!

Foto Friday: 499 Granny Squares

They’re actually granny’s daughters (one-round granny squares), but there are still almost 500 tails to weave in on these bad boys before I can stitch them all together. So, nothing to show off today that’s finished, but 500 squares are 500 squares. Click for more info.

I Can Sew!

I decided that I was going to learn to sew together squares tonight. I’ve actually put together four or five so far, but then I ran out of the colors that I needed next. That’s the basic pattern for the whole blanket, though. I think it’s quite lovely.