2025 is the Year of the WIPs and UFOs

Pattern: Ice Bridge Headband by Celeste Knitwear - Yarn: Red Heart Soft in Watercolors - Needle: US 6

  The more I work through my yarn the more I want to keep going.  I have a bunch of of WIPs (work in progress) that keep taunting me.  I also have a large bin of UFOs (unfinished objects) that I haven't touched in so long.  It felt so good to finish that scarf I had hidden away, so I want to keep that going as well.

  Doing that will be a bit tricky, but I have a plan.  The bin with my older WIPs somehow got pushed into a corner of my craft room.  It got pushed because other things got put away in the same area.  I need to clean that area out and reorganize it.  In the meantime, I can start clearing out old project bags I have laying around the living room.

  We went to brunch at Bourbon Boulevard and there was a book club sitting behind us.  I couldn't quite get what book they were reading, but there was a character named Kelly who cooked a lot and there was a detective who may or may not be attractive.  Miss Spud kept trying to get to Bill's Croque Monsieur and his grapefruit mimosa.  He jokingly offered her some of his drink and she went to grab it and opened her mouth.

Pattern: Granny Hex Bucket Hat - Yarn: Bernat Handicrafter Cotton Stripes in Motion Stripes & Bernat Handicrafter Cotton Peace and Love in Groovy Green - Hook: 6.5mm

  Usually when you change colors in crochet you work the last loop of a stitch with the new color.  When working a slip stitch, you only get one to work with, so the whole action is performed using the new color.  It might just be this yarn, but I found my joins getting loose when I did that.  Instead, it worked better to join the round with the old color, work a single chain and tighten the old color before starting the new row.

  I was curious how much yarn these used.  On this one I used 52 grams (92.3 yards) of the green and 58 grams (103 yards) of the pink.  I could have used one less row on the brim.

Yearly Yarn Tracker:

Yarn In: 0 (0)
Yarn Out: 3 (3)

Total: -3