I'm a multi-project person...

...and I think I'm always going to be that way. It's hard to not start new a idea straight away, or pick up the lovely new yarn, or give in to the "I could really do with a new one of [fill in your own blank]... I know, why don't I make one?"...

 

 

Different projects do suit different moods, different times of day and different situations, but with that comes the danger that nothing ever gets finished. Too much flitting about from one project to another is not a good thing.

 

 

So, with that in mind, I thought I'd try and focus my crochet efforts a bit more this week. Not on a single project, I don't think I could manage that, but on a few that are in need of my attention.

 

 

Number one: This blanket. A simple, easy, evening project. Just right for cosying up on the sofa with. It's straightforward, only two colours of yarn for each square, and continuous - I've worked out a way to carry the colours along the back of the project without creating an obvious seam, so there's no chopping and changing of yarn every new row. A ticking along in the background project that doesn't require much concentration (perfect for when my brain has given up post-8pm!).

 

 

Number two: The Hettie Blanket hexagon tutorials. I'd really like to finish this, this week, and it's nearly there. It's the opposite of my blanket above; it needs concentration and daylight.

 

I have some hexagons ready to be photographed for a join-as-you-go tutorial, but there's no way I could get this done in the evening when the children are in bed. So this is a project to be tackled during the school-day. In those very precious child-free, daylight crocheting hours.

 

 

Number three: My wonky sock is getting lonely (and my feet are pretty chilly too). Once it's cast on this kind of project can live by the sofa and be picked up whenever I have a spare five or ten minutes. The casting on, however, is probably best done as above, when I can concentrate a little. Hopefully then this one will be less wonky.

 

 

That was going to be it. Three projects seemed plenty.

 

Then I remembered the project that had left my mouth before I had engaged my crochet-planning brain cells. In an attempt to pacify a small person, and produce something that might encourage her to wear more than a t-shirt outside in November, I found myself suggesting a Disney-inspired something. Turns out I had some yarn in a suitably sickly Disney shade and so project number four came into being. In an attempt to turn it into something more productive, once I have the details worked out I'm planning to translate the pattern into a much more palatable yarn. For now, I'll be fending off the over-enthusiasm of the small person in question, who is currently requesting pictures of *insert frosty Disney character of choice* on the front (not going to happen!).

 

 

This is what I will be working on this week - what have you got planned? (I would genuinely like to know - I'm quite nosey!)

 

xx

p.s. I'm hopping over to Handmade Monday this week to have a nose at what everyone has been up to...