First, I have a confession. I have discovered so many WIPs in my house that I'm embarrassed to put them all up on ravelry. The site is great though and I'm glad I did put one long hibernating WIP up on it becuase now it's there everytime I log in and it gave me a little kick in the butt to work on it again.
So here it is: The story of Ellen's Afghan.
I try very hard to make things for big events in my friend's lives. Weddings, babies, etc. Not everyone who should get something gets something, it really just depends on my free time when they get married or pregnant. For example the year we went to 10 weddings, no one got anything. Same true for the 6 babies in 6 months. The projects that do get off the ground often get backlogged and delayed and delivered very late (like on 2nd anniversaries). Ellen's afghan is one of those projects. I designed it from the 200 Crochet Blocks book so that it would be as special as Ellen and her fiance. They are wonderful people and deserve a wonderful afghan. I picked out the yarn, test crocheted some squares, decided on a hook and was ready to roll. Then I went into dissertation mode and defense mode and nothing else exsisted in my life. Ellen's wedding was two weeks after I defended. And two weeks wasn't nearly enough time to finish and afghan. So I made a scrap book, detailing the whole process for her, and promised the afghan would follow. That was in September. I've finished one square since then. Ravelry has shamed me and square 2 was done this morning. This is the project I'm going to bring for the plane next week. We'll see how it goes. But I've doubled the size already!
Wow...I'm amazed on so many levels by this post...but mostly at how you were able to post this at 5:02 PM when we left the mall at about 4:50 or thereabouts ;-)
ReplyDeleteVery cool afghan pattern :) I have the blocks book, but never actually taken the time to design my own. (Not usually brave enough :) The closest I have come to designing my own is from a book of knit blocks, so people get afghans like the one I last saw sitting on a certain couch... :)
ReplyDeleteAs for productivity rates, just think how easy it would be to have exponential growth on this one! (For a little while at least:)
Good luck with the airplane work... I almost always end up with my work in my backpack and my nose in a book, despite my good intentions to be productive.