[crochet] Sophie's Universe: Part 8

The Sophie's Universe afghan through part 8.

Started introducing some super bright colors and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I did get a lot more yarn in Ravelry trades and now that I have so many more options, I don't know what colors to do next. Take it back to neutral colors? Keep on with the brights? I don't know, I don't know.

I will get back to this during my vacation- right now I'm frantically knitting things for gifts. 

[misc] Santana Monday

Boo, another weekend gone. Mondays are hard because Santana doesn't want us to go back to work. 

Friday night I had a friend stay over. We made eggrolls and drank too much. Saturday morning I managed to push down my hangover so that we could attend a Joy of Painting class. Love the painting, as always. When I got back home in the afternoon, I tried to stay awake but had to nap until Dollar roused me to say that the take-out pizza was here. So I ate pizza and went back to sleep. This is why I hardly ever drink- the hangover sucks and I feel like I lose 24 hours to it.

Sunday morning was much better. It was cold but sunny. I usually get up, make coffee, feed the cats and rabbit and go sit on a rug in my craft room. This is my favorite place in the house- it's kind of secluded, I have everything set up within arms reach, I bring up patterns on my laptop (set on a hat box under a table) and listen to podcasts on my phone. The cats come hang out with me here so I try to make little napping spots for them in nooks and crannies between baskets and in bags.

I've gone back to working on the Sophie's Universe crochet blanket (shown above) since I got a bit more yarn in a couple swaps/trades on Ravelry. The rounds are taking much longer now- anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, depending how much is going on in the round. Looking forward to getting another package of yarn in the mail today!

[crochet] Sophie's Universe: Part 4

I finished Part 3 of Sophie's Universe back in April and set aside the project for Sock Madness. Then summer happened. Now that the weather is cooling off, I picked the project back up and squared-up the circle over the holiday weekend:

I particularly like the colors I used for the corner flowers- they look like sunflowers!

The one yarn requirement for this blanket is worsted-weight single ply wool (or wool blend) from my stash. No buying yarn. Which means I can't be too picky about colors. So far I've used:

- Green Mountain Spinnery Mountain Mohair

- Malabrigo worsted

- Manos del Uruguay

- Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride worsted (found a cache of unused skeins in a box above a bookcase! WOOOOOO!!)

- Harrisville Designs Orchid with Cashmere

- Harrisville Designs Flax & Wool Blend

- Navajo-Churro wool from local farm

- Mystery bag of wool from Senior Center

I'm on to Chart 5 and it's getting hard to complete a round without running out of the color I'm using. So I'll just keep going and add/use what colors I have. I will not buy more yarn.* 

The project is getting big and heavy. The cats are circling it like sharks smelling blood in the water:

Penny's the worst. She has heat-seeking vision like a Predator. If I have this on my lap, she'll drop out of nowhere and try to get on it. If I'm lucky, I can put her under the blanket and continue to work on it on top of her while she purrs.

*I might buy more yarn.