16 Pink Grannies

Actually, there are 30/39 of them done now, but that’s not really relevant. I was a bad panda and started another new project even though I have no room to store it and several other UFOs to finish. My problem has always been that I start things and don’t finish them and unfortunately a lot of it revolves around project size. Once they get too big to tote around with me to class, I basically start one that I can. Thus, the Weighted Companion Cube blanket was started on Monday. And with the coupons I have for Michaels this week, yarn is coming CHEAPLY. I’m hoping to get all of my current projects done by summer time so that I can rev up for Christmas. If everyone is going to get blankets, I better get my ducks in a row before the insanity of summer work & school get me too busy.

Coupons!

Yesterday, I ran out of yarn for the baby blanket I’ve been working on, so today I had to make a yarn run and realized that Michael’s has a 50% off One Regular Price Item running ALL WEEK LONG. Needless to say, I’ve already decided that I’ll be making a week-long yarn run so that I can stock up on yarns that I know I’ll be using in the next few months. (So much for destashing, right?)

Is it terrible that I even recruited my mom on this one? She said she’d run down the hill with me tomorrow so that I could get double the coupon-y goodness. I’m so grateful that she gets where I’m coming from. Most people wouldn’t go a total of forty minutes out of their way to spend $5 on yarn (normally $10!) that won’t even be for them at the end, but hey, my mom is amazing.

Outside of that, though, it’s been nose to the grindstone. After I wrap this up, it’s off to curl up with HOUSE, one of my favorite shows ever, and some yarn before I head to bed and then tomorrow I plan on knocking out some more work on that baby blanket. Once I get that done, it’s one less UFO on my list!

Six Squares and a Baby Blanket

This week has been busy in ways that I could never imagine. I’ve hardly gotten the time to crochet in the last few days. Tuesday I was able to complete six more squares for a granny square afghan, but other than that, school has just consumed my life. (I’m actually writing this between classes right now because things are so tight.)

Hopefully this weekend I will be able to either finish the white baby blanket that I’ve been working on, but for now, all I’m really hoping to do is get through today’s classes unscathed and prepared for work. My boss is upping my hours next week, so I really need to buckle down and get all my class work done in order to knock out the crochet projects currently on my list.

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.