Cat Mad Crochet

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It’s been a week of project highs and lows. If you remember this project from last week, I have bad news. I really hope you weren’t waiting to see how that one turned out because it won’t be turning out at all.

I got the yarn for that project while I was waiting for my MIL. I purchased what the LYS had and trotted off thinking I had enough yarn for whatever project I dreamed up. I was wrong. Unbeknownst to me, this stitch pattern was greedily eating up the yarn while I was merrily crocheting away. When I measured and did the math (See! I did it. I said I would and I did.) it turned out I would need two more balls of the pink to finish the project. So I called up the yarn store only to learn that that color is discontinued. I did a big internet search only to find that Bloom is sold out everywhere. Dammit.

I decided I had spent enough time trying to track down more yarn, so I frogged the project and picked a more open stitch pattern with a lot less yarn eating stitches, I hope, to restart with. I really, really hope this one works out. What I should do is work this project along the long side so I at least have it to length and the width can be determined by the amount of yarn I have. But here’s the thing, fixing mistakes is miserable if I do it that way. Fixing them working along the short edge is way faster. Sure the length is a crap shoot, and I could very well end up having to frog the whole thing and start again, but think of the time savings if I make a mistake in the meantime! I jest, yet not. I am a mess. I’m blaming the perimenopausal brain fog.

Anyway, the new project is three rows in. Go me.

I have yet to start the fingerless gloves I probably should be making now, but I did finish the cowl! I am so happy with myself. One finished project. Happy, happy day!

After I finished the cowl, I plunged back into the marled shawl. I’m very pleased with the color transitions, but, since I’m making it out of scraps, I reached the point at which it was going to get seriously scrappy in its color transitions, so I’m ending it off with a wide border. 

I’ve just started in with a light gray yarn blending with the lighter purple yarn. I’m quite pleased with the transition. Once I finish off the purple, I have three or four shades of gray to work through until it ends off with black. I’m very happy with it. There’s something of the sunset to it, as well as something of the rainbow. There’s also something seriously almost finished about it that is making me very especially happy because then I can complete all the projects!

Except the blanket. The last minute blanket I started has gone nowhere. It’s sitting on the table where I write and staring at me in a sort of disappointed by not surprised sort of way. I think a lot of my yarn looks at me that way. At least my cat loves me.

I did make seven more circles since last week for my project counting the days of living in an oligarchy. I was busy last week so a lot of them were small, but I made a big one yesterday to commemorate the heinous comment about how some people want a dictator.  wtf

Stay strong. Keep your hooks and yarn at hand to keep the horrors at bay. Until next week!