Second Blanket Progress

So I started another blanket, it's been a week and a half, and i've been taking pictures daily or almost daily to save my progress. 

 

 

 

The last picture is from yesterday, May 10. I missed a few days of pictures but you can see the growth. 

I'm using a stitch called the Alpine stitch, which is really pretty and an amazing texture. 

My cat Neptune really likes the blanket too.

 

                        

     

Oh where has the energy gone?

Remember at the beginning of this whole thing? The two days leading up to spring break where everyone was talking about how they might cancel school for 2-6 whole weeks?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!

Well look how that turned out. First it was 2 weeks, including spring break. Then four, then 5, then just... cancelled all together. 

And I don't know of a single person that I know who has said "I'm absolutely loving quarantine!"
Because it wasn't all fun and games like a lot of people thought it was. It gets exhausting. No change in your day to day life. And that's taking a toll on my work too. I don't feel like doing work anymore. I've got no motivation, but I'm keeping up because I feel like I have to. It's not fun, it's not easy, if I can keep going by lunch time it's a good day. 

Then I move on to different things. 

We just got a car for me to be able to drive once I get my license so we've been working to clean it which isn't that awful. I enjoy when things are clean and look nice and when I know I put work in to make it like that. 

I started another crochet blanket which I will probably start a post on, I learned a new stitch and I'm making this one bigger. Currently it's as wide as my bed is long. So it'll be fun. And take a lot of time. 

And as for videos........................................
I lost motivation again. I'm working on them but I also forgot to take pictures for some of them and thus I can't make thumbnails. 

Quarantine mood? Surviving.

Depression Era Peanut Butter Bread

Blankets Blankes Blankets

A continuation of my last post, but I did finish my blanket.... eventually. It took me a week and it's a bit messy, but I finished!

 Here's after 3 days, I was making speedy progress. My entire afternoon was just sitting in my room and getting as many rows done as I could, while I listened to podcasts (10/10 recommend Reply All, they're cool).

I had a couple of times, because I was using scraps, where I ran out of yarn halfway through my row. Thankfully for this one, I had another skein I was saving for a different project that I used to save the row, but otherwise I would have probably had to unravel it.






Day Five ish, I finished the actual blanket portion, and started on the border. I wanted to make the border wider, because the blanket itself wasn't very wide.
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Finished! I did 1 row of white, one row of black, another row of white, and then a scalloped or curved edge in black to finish. It's not super big or very neat, but I'm really proud of how it turned out.


   badda bing badda boom

Who let the cat get the yarn................. again?

What's this weeks project? Well, I wanted to crochet a blanket. But the problem is that takes a lot of yarn. So we went and ordered some, but it's going to be another week before it arrives. So I took my 2 baskets of yarn and grabbed all the smaller balls of yarn, and I'm making a smaller blanket using the scraps. It's bright and colorful, and I'll post a picture when I finally finish it. I'm probably a third of the way through and it's been 3 days from the start. When I'm not doing school work I've been working on it and listening to music.
Day 1:

 Day 2:

My cat, Neptune, trying to eat any string he comes across, making this project double the work:

 And this morning:

Bread Day 4: French Chocolate Bread

Quarantine: Draining Energy Fast

Surprisingly, all this time at home is doing the opposite of what I would expect. I thought it would be a nice chance to recharge, being an introvert, but after about 2 days I was ready to be out, doing something other than sitting around. I've been really tired and also losing a lot of motivation, which isn't great when you're trying to stick to deadlines 😬.

I started another crochet project. I made two hats for friends last week, so this week I decided to try something different. I bought a bunch of yarn, which unfortunately isn't supposed to arrive until next week, but in the meantime, I'm using up my scraps of yarn to create a smallish blanket and to try out some different stitches. I hope it ends up finishing well.
Crochet has also given me a lot of time to think, and a lot of time to make more music playlists and listen to too many podcasts.