Crochet: more progress...sort of

Why is it that whenever I finish a project I have to start another one immediately? The worst part is they usually aren't even part of my WIPs but a new project that I just found in some magazine. For example, I was just able to cross the dreaded hooded scarf off my list, but then figured I had a few minutes so I would whip up an adorable baby hat and mittens that I found in the latest Crochet! magazine. Don't get me wrong, they are ADORABLE, but I really didn't need another project. Yes, I am using up stash yarn....but I have a TON of other gifts to get done. OK, who am I kidding; I am an addict and there was no way I was going to resist doing this cut little bunny hat. Even if I had to make Caleb where it, it was going to be made! I will post pictures of it as soon as I get it done, which will most likely be tomorrow evening.

Ravelry has proven to be extremely addicting. I love the fact that I can keep a list of all the projects that I want to do. I am sure there are great things that I have wanted to do, but have lost the print out or forgot what book they were in. Now I can look at all the other great things people have done and with one click add the same project to my queue. Then I can add notes as to what type of yarn I want to use and who I want to make it for. Fabulous! I spent quite a while adding pictures off a lot of my finished projects, and two of them have actually been chosen to be the picture used to represent that pattern on the site! I know that it is probably because it is the first time that pattern was added (with a picture) but it still feels very validating. My family just doesn't always understand the addiction that crochet has become for me. I LOVE to create these things for the people in my life, but I don't think they can always appreciate the work that goes in to them.

One of the things that is continuously on my to-do list are items to do for charity, but they seem to get pushed to the bottom of the list whenever I find something else to do for some one in my life. I am going to make it my goal this January to try to use up some of my yarn stash (even though it isn't all THAT big) to make items for charities. I will try very hard to just use the yarn I have and not worry about all of the colors matching or coordinating. There is a certain kind of "visual interest" in all those different colors blending and contrasting....but it goes against all of my OCD-ishness. Like my father always says, "if it is worth doing, it is worth doing well"....actually he always said "don't do anything half-assed", but you get the picture. :)