Winter Hibernation = Time to Play with Yarn

Aside from very occasionally taking a crochet project with me on a road trip, I have done very little crafting with yarn over the last 10 years. It isn't that I never got into it or don't have the skill; just somehow lifes distractions (and maybe the learning curve and excitement of my newer hobbies; quilting and papercrafting?) drew me away from it.

This winter, I've been on a mission to be at home a little more frequently, organize around the house, go through boxes that have never been opened since our move over 4 years ago and finish some of the projects that had been started as long as 15 years ago.

Yes, I am a project starter and I do like to have multiple projects to switch to so that I'm never bored or tired of the one I'm working on. I'm OK with that and don't really consider it a flaw but the problem is, I've now lived long enough to have too many UFO's (unfinished objects).

While going through some tubs in the attic, I came across my yarn and yarn projects, some of them soooo close to completion! I pulled out an afghan, abandon the attic project and went to work on it. Just a couple of hours of work and a few days later, it was done and gorgeous! (And I didn't take a picture before it got away). I was so excited with this and so enjoyed cuddling up with it while I worked on it, I immediately started the next one (and also failed to take a photo of it). The third one was a baby afghan, done in white sport weight yarn with a silky white thread woven in. It is very nice close up but somewhat lacked interest overall or especially from any distance. I went back to organizing and tackled a messy, tangled box of ribbon. Ribbon? Yes! That's what the baby afghan needed. So now it is complete too and this time... I took a photos. :-)