Thursday, January 28, 2021

I’ve always had this problem. Even before I’ve finished one project I’ve thought of several more I’d like to do. It happened when I was knitting (hence all my yarn), it happened with cross stitching (hence all my floss and patterns) and it happens with quilting (hence all my fabric and patterns).

Today I was working on my Valentine cards; I’m on my third one and although I have to think about what I’m doing I can also let my mind wander from time to time. While I’ve stitched I’ve decided how these particular cards will be quilted and I’ve settled on my next two card patterns.

We watched the movie Shirley on Prime last night and I did some research on the author the movie is based on. I took a short break to place one of her books on hold at the library.

I’ve been knitting a scarf in the evenings; I didn’t have much mohair yarn but I thought I might get a decent-sized scarf. After knitting for one evening I took it all apart and made it a bit skinnier so I could get a little more length. But I still didn’t feel like it was going to work so I took another break from my stitching and found a scrap afghan pattern that I will use it in. I have an entire bin of “odd balls” and I’ll use all of them up in the pattern I found. I’ve crocheted a very similar afghan several times (in fact I have one on the go now) but this pattern is knitted and will suit the yarns I have better. Some of those novelty yarns are difficult to crochet with.

So I’m not sure that having my mind wander is such a good thing. The ideas I came up with just today will take me months to accomplish.