W.I.P. Wednesday

 Well, I've made some progress on my old W.I.P.

Please ignore the kitty accessories and the cardboard shreds on the floor, that's just life with cats. You can vacuum daily and if you have scratch posts or toys, you are going to have cardboard shreds on the floor within minutes. 

I added the center so I'd have a good reference and would work towards that because after the center, the colors start working kind of backwards.  

Good news, I hope, I was looking at the original pattern and it only called for 8 oz. of each color, so I'm a little more encouraged that I will have enough yarn after all.  My skeins are 7 oz. so it will be really cutting it close and I mean really cutting it close.  I pray I have enough.

The pattern also indicated to make the squares one by one and attached them by sewing together but I thought that would be a LOT of sewing together so I am doing a join as you go method and I don't really know if that will take less or more yarn, seems like it would take more, but I just don't know.  I guess I will find out eventually.

Wish me luck, I'm going to need it 😄 

 

Project Life - January 2026

I hesitated to post these this year, but decided to do it anyway, primarily because it gives me an extra backup if something happens and I lose the layouts from the app.

So...here is the first month of January 2026.  Highlights include 

We finally got our new pastor!
I was ordained as a deacon!
I finished an Afghan that I started almost 4 years ago.
I went to a reading of a new play - the Flirt Bar
My family, my cats and my friends were happy and healthy.

Click on photos to enlarge.

W.I.P. Wednesday

I've been working my Trip Around the World (TATW) Afghan but don't have a photo this week.  I want to wait until I get a tiny bit further along but have made some progress.

I mentioned last week that I have started a "take along" project that I can work on when on the go, like to the Sip & Stitch meetings.  I only went to the Crochet Connections in Tucker and worked about an hour and then went to the Sip & Stitch and was there about 90 minutes or so.  I have already almost 1/2 of my cardigan though.  It works up rather quikly.

The TATW Afghan isn't as fast became I'm making tiny squares that I switch the color every square and this cardigan is all one color.  I've gotten many compliments on the color and I admit to myself, I think it is really pretty.

W.I.P. Wednesday

I know, I know!  I said I would not start a new project until my old UFO was completed BUT hear me out.

The Trip Around The World Afghan is huge and I needed a small project to work on when I’m on the go, like at the car dealership or our weekly Sip & Stitch.  The Afghan requires me to carry 13 skeins around and it not feasible to do that…so this Cabana Granny Shirt, only requires one color & one skein (ball) of yarn at a time so it’s the perfect “on the go” project.

I didn’t buy new yarn (already had it) and the pattern is free…so no new investment. 

I’m still working on my Afghan (although I haven’t done much this past week so no updated photos) but it is still my primary project.  I’ll just work on this new one, when I need to take a smaller project with me.

Also, I did another thing outside my comfort zone.  I went to another craft group (Crochet Connections at the Tucker Rec Center) - there were like 25 people there.  I only met really 2 people (Maddie and Mickey) and no one actually reached out to welcome me...they seemed to be in their only little groups.  Not sure I will go back, but it is only 1 hour once a month, so it is dedicated crochet time.

Throwback Thursday

The Sparks!  I loved them.  My favorite song was "I Predict".  I heard it on the radio this morning and felt the need to share it.  They were a a bit of a quirkly duo (Ron & Russell Mael, who are brothers) and they are awesome!

 

W.I.P. Wednesday

Well, I started this project a long, long time ago..I’m fact, almost 15 years ago.  I still remember picking out the yarn at Hobby Lobby and was excited about the project.  Looking back, I wished I would have picked up 2 skeins of each color but at the time, I could only afford 1 of each.  I mean there are 13 colors and even it the yarn was on sale, that's still a lot of money at one time.  Of course, I thought I would be able to go back and get more when I needed it, but life took a turn.

Unlike my old Flower Power Blanket, I know why I stopped working on it.  First, after Thatcher died, it was a long time that I could even pick up a crochet hook and this was my first project I started on about 5 1/2 years after he died.  I worked on it a couple of months, then my dad got sick and about 4 months later, he died and once again, I just wasn’t in a place where I could crochet.  

I was really down and didn't really know how to move forward and was not interested and about 22 months later, I was in a horrible car accident, then my brother died 2 days later.  I couldn’t have crocheted with my broken body if I wanted to and my broken heart made it even harder.

When years passed & I finally started thinking about crochet again, so much time had passed that I discovered the yarn I was using for this project had been discontinued and I didn’t think I had enough to finish it, so I hesitated getting back to it.

Honestly, I still don’t think I have enough yarn, but I’m in the year of “completion” so I am going to try and hope if I do run out, I can find some kind of close colors in another brand.  

Anyway, wish me luck…Here’s where I’m restarting:

I'm about 40% finished.