Keep it out

I don't know a lot, but I do know that leaving your hobby out where you can see it will help you complete a project/work towards your goal.

Chris was cleaning up and put my plastic bag of yarn and blanket (Okay okay, it's more of an awkwardly wide scarf) in a cupboard in the kitchen. Where the can opener goes. Come on. At LEAST put such a bag with those contents in the linen closet with the towels.

I insist that it stay on the living room floor.  But then I remembered that I don't live with the kid and took it home with me. Now it sits on the chair in my living room.  My 'rents won't touch it. =]

Happy 2012!

Happy 2012!  It's been a good couple days...lots of talk about people's holidays, hearing about resolutions and struggling to write the correct year.  I've never really had a resolution, mainly because I have this mentality that just because it is a new year doesn't mean you need to make all these sudden changes; you can make them happen any time of the year!

So anyways, time for a new hobby. I chose crocheting!

What you need to crochet: Yarn, crochet hook, patience!

My grandma taught me how to single crochet a few years back and I had made a potholder.  I decided I wanted to make my first blanket, so I went out to JoAnn fabrics after Christmas (tons of sales/clearance items!) and purchased some yarn and a crochet hook.

 I've been hooked ever since! (no pun intended). I'm not sure if I am going to use another color, I might just make it a solid blue. I'm also not expecting this thing to be perfect, since I think I already miscounted stiches :-/  

 My blanket after a week!

Also, this blanket is a double stich crochet. With the help of youtube, I taught myself to double crochet =]

Start date: December 27, 2012
End date (goal): February 29, 2012

I'm hoping more people in my life start popping out babies so that I can make baby blankets too!