Progress feels slow these days because I’ve been casting on too many projects. So of course I’ve not been posting updates, but I’ve been knitting and crocheting. For a few days, I started a new project a day, thankfully last night I held firm and made progress on another project (not pictured)1. That’s not surprising for September; between my favorite season approaching and the Jewish holidays, I’m craving something new!
I’ve been pretty consistent in working on this blanket during my morning coffee most days. It’s proving a good project for our far ranging discussions, especially as the rows are growing longer with each section. As long as I remember to slip the first stitch, (log cabin is pretty much the only time i do this and it’s weird because I don’t actually like how the pick-up is, but that’s my default!) and catch both strands of my yarn i can pay attention to the conversation. The air conditioning where we sit can be aggressive so it’s not a challenge to have a large blanket on my lap.
I’m not quite sure what size the blanket will be when I finish with the large cake of yarn. I have plenty of the baby blue Baby Soft yarn, so a solid border should help me get to the minimum dimensions (34, 36 ideal) with ease.
I hope to finish this one so I can return to the other blankets I’ve been working on. There are too many and there’s lots of yarn everywhere and it’s created a few not-great situations.
I’m incredibly embarrassed. I was donating a bunch of yarn to clear space in my office. It almost looked as if a yarn store had exploded. I’d pulled out some yarn I wanted to use for these blankets and set it next to other yarn I was using. The end result? It all got mixed up and some that shouldn’t have been donated was. To make matters worse, the friend who had given me a project to finish months ago (she’d cast it on over 20 years ago!) was the one who found it in the donations. That was both good — I need that yarn — and embarrassing. Once I got home, I figured out how it happened and cleaned up my office to prevent issues like that in the future.
Now here’s to hoping I can finish one project, a new kippah, that I’d like for Rosh Hashannah.
- I need to rethink quite a bit on this site in order to have one update link to multiple projects, or none. ↩︎