Current Projects

I’ve been neglecting the spinning for a while in favor of a couple of crocheted afghans. Two afghans at a time? What was I thinking?

The first pattern I started is the Hobo Blanket, using 17 different colors of Knitpicks Palette yarn. Here’s where I was with that one a little over a month ago:

Further along now. It’s a pretty mindless pattern, easy to work on while riding in the car or watching TV. There are lots of color changes, though, because I’ve only been doing one or two rows of each color. I think I’m going to try to slip in a couple of wider stripes from here on out.

I’d gotten those yarns to start the Babette Blanket, but got a few squares into it and got distracted & gave up. But then again, I really wanted to make a Babette, so I got more yarn and am going to try again. So there! Take that, short attention span!

These are my colors this time around:

I love them all, but I’m hoping the combination of these colors into the squares doesn’t end up looking like a 1970′s kitchen. I have a few squares done so far — need to take some photos soon.

Now that I’ve started these two big projects, I will probably go back to spinning and do nothing but that for a month or two. Or maybe I’ll take up a new hobby altogether, like soap making. I learned how to make goat’s milk soap yesterday…