I’ve been quiet here because I have been suffering from a rather intense bout of crochetitis.
crochetitis / noun
med., psych.
a condition in which a person obsessively crochets and uses crochet as an excuse not to do anything else
The kids have been in daycare since mid September and I have only managed to send out ONE job application! This calls for an intervention! Except I am the patient and I have to be the doctor. Woe.
Allow me then to show you one of the projects in what shall go down as the year of crochet blankets.
I scored this colourful yarn at a clearance sale, and had actually intended to work on mandalas.
Which I did.
But I soon had a change of mind and decided to go to the trust granny square.
I couldn’t stop. And soon I had all 100 of them ready.
Except the work was not done even though the 100 squares had been joined together. For I had 2 yarn ends for each square, and 2 yarn ends from the 18 seams.
That’s 236 ends to darn. I have not calculated the number of ends until now. TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX. !!!
Really, the worst part of this odyssey is that I fell out of love of the blanket. But I couldn’t give it away — I had actually intended this to be a baby blanket for a girlfriend’s newborn — now that I had pumped so much time and energy into it AND was not all that proud of it.
I suppose there are some lessons to take home:
- Cut your losses. Sometimes you have to recognise that you made a mistake, and to let go of it despite all the time and energy you have already expended. Because staying on board means wasting even more time and energy.
- Don’t procrastinate. Why? Why didn’t I darn the damned ends as I was crocheting the squares? Every time I start on one of these granny square blankets I promise myself not to make the same mistake, and I just keep failing to keep to my resolution.
Mono Motiv 
It’s a mistake that we all make. I have a pile of unfinished projects just waiting to have the ends sewn in and sewn together. lol
I know! Overtime I tell myself,” OK you are going to sit down and finish those ends today” some other bag of newly purchased yarn tempts me into starting a new project…
You are not alone in your crochetitis! I can’t even remember all the things I have not done! I too have several things that I have yet to weave in all those ends, but I am doing much better with later projects. My last 2 blankets have all their ends woven in!
What happened to the blankets before the last two? Did you also take the easy way out like I did and simply snipped off the ends?
Stunning!👌
How did this turn out? I love all the colours. I am having this problem at the moment with one of my WIPs. I am just not sure I like the way it is going and am not sure whether to start over or plough ahead. Gah!
Well, how far ahead are you with the WIP? I am convinced now that the minute you are in doubt it’s best to just rip it up!! (hmm. I am working on a scarf right now that I am not feeling that hot about anymore. But I have reworked that scarf 5 times now.) Put up a pic on instagram and get your followers to suggest remedies?
actually I think maybe it is going to come together this time. I have abandoned projects before but it is hard, I had a hexagonal/ star blanket in the making but the idea just didn´t work. so much work to abandon but so much more ahead if you are not sure. I am also trying a scarf as a present in fact now i think about it I am often plagued by doubts most of the way through a project haha maybe we need to have more faith in the process! good luck with the scarf