It may be small but it is progress!

I got over excited about raiding my stash and went crazy instead of focusing. I started a dish cloth with some cotton yarn that was leftover from a hobo bag. I also started a beret for Mother’s day.

I finished the dish cloth this afternoon. I could have finished it on Saturday but I wanted to get back to the beret. I sat down to work on the beret today and saw the little dish cloth just waiting to be finished. I decided to pick it up and just do it. This gives me an opportunity to try uploading a picture to the blog. The cloth alone isn’t exciting. The fact that I have gotten rid of that much yarn (it wasn’t all that was left) and that I completed a little project is good news

Raiding my stash!

When I moved 8 months ago I realized just how much yarn, fabric and other crafting supplies I have. I love being creative. It is so much easier to create things if you have everything you need. I might just have too much stuff. My new place is much smaller than the last place and I have fewer places to store it. I recently had a few friends over for brunch and did some major cleaning. The yarn hiding behind my massage chair had to move but where will it go? Sadly, I didn’t find a home for it. There is no nook or cranny to hide it and I don’t want to put it back in behind the chair. It is sitting in a bag in my bedroom hiding behind my bed so that guests won’t spot it. This just won’t do. I have got to do something about it. I have made a list of gifts that I will be making this year. Birthdays, wedding showers, and Christmas (Yes! I am thinking about Christmas already). I have made a list of people and things to make. I will need to get yarn for a number of the projects. I am pleased to announce that I broke into the stash for a few of them! Whew. I don’t want to add one more skein to my stash until I have gotten rid of a few.

My mother’s birthday is coming up and so is mother’s day. For her birthday I made a wrap from a lovely rust colored yarn called Symphony. The earthy color will be nice for mom and it was an interesting pattern. I still need to block it but it looks nice. Ten minutes ago I started a beret (I am making up the pattern) to go with the wrap. Mom will be able to wear them together or separately. I hope she like them.

On Wednesday I started working on a hobo bag for my sister. Her birthday will be in September and she didn’t care what color the bag was so I decided to use a lovely variegated merino wool yarn that Mom gave me a few years ago. I am now taking a break on the bag. I am almost out of yarn. I will have to get a complementary color to finish it off. Fortunately this is a hobo bag so I can do pretty much anything. When I am done crocheting the bag I will felt it. I made this bag out of cotton the last time I made it and I didn’t like how much it stretched. Felting it should solve that problem. I think that the variegated part will look amazing. I won’t be able to post pictures of that project until after her birthday (in September). She is computer savvy and will probably find this blog before then.

I better get back to that hat and shrink that stash!