Category: Crocheting

I found the crochet hook!

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My youngest fell asleep for a nap during his rest time today so the house was extra quiet after lunch. I took the opportunity to search in my sewing closet for the largest crochet hook I have that I am using to make a chunky blanket. I partially finished the blanket a few months ago and haven’t touched it since.

The hook should be in a jar on the top of the shelves I have hanging on the wall in the closet, but it wasn’t there. Since it also wasn’t stuck in the partially finished blanket I suspected it was in a tote of miscellaneous items that has accumulated on the floor. I looked, and yes, there the crochet hook was!

I spent about 20 minutes reworking part of the blanket and crocheting a couple more rows. As I progress I will post some pictures of the project.

Another reason for finding the crochet hook today – besides making progress on the blanket project – is that my mom asked if she could borrow it for a couple of days. Since I would see her for Easter dinner today, I wanted to make my best effort to find it and get it to her. Mission successful!

I won’t have the crochet hook for a few days now so I need to work on a different project tomorrow. Two options come to mind based on what I saw in the first pile of items on the sewing table. There is a dress of my daughters with a rip that needs to be mended. Or I am making a jean skirt for my daughter with denim from a pair of jeans that doesn’t fit me anymore. I need to sew one more tier of fabric onto it, hem it, and make an elastic waistband.

I think I will mend the dress tomorrow as that should be about a 20 minute project that I will likely do by hand. I suspect the jean skirt will take 2 or 3 more sewing sessions to complete.

Completing projects

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I have a few reasons for writing this post, and hopefully blogging here more often again.

I wanted this year to be the year of finishing the many started-but-not-completed projects that have accumulated in my tiny sewing room (aka the closet under the stairs in our townhouse), but the first three months of the year filled up with other obligations and a couple rounds of sicknesses in our home and here we are with very few of those projects touched so far.

A decluttering tip I heard recently for clearing clutter in project spaces was to just finish the project – duh! So I am going to jot down updates about my progress decluttering my sewing closet that way.

Also, we are house shopping. While I hope that our new house has a larger space for me to sew, I can’t count on it, and the reality is that if a half-finished project that is currently in my sewing closet isn’t finished by the time we have to pack up this house, it isn’t going to be worked on for many more months. So that is another reason to work on these projects.

Finally, I love – and I mean LOVE – to start new projects, but I simply can’t until I finish ones I have already started. So if I want to have the fun of getting new fabric, and choosing patterns, and having the thrill of starting something new, I have got to move some of the current projects out of my sewing closet by finishing them.

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, but I will have some time between church and dinner without obligations so I need to hunt out the large crochet hook I am using for a blanket and work on a row or two of that project.