Speaking of unfinished projects

I've got two biggies that I started, stopped, started something else, stopped that something else, then started the other again. If that doesn't make sense, weeeeellll neither does the way my brain works when starting projects. Very abstract random, not so much concrete sequential. It's funny though, because at work I have to be so very organized and manage my time so wisely. At play, it would seem, I am QUITE the opposite (no big secret there if you ever saw my bedroom before I was married... or even now that I'm married... It's not a STY, but it's not the image of organization either).


Where was I? Oh yes, THIS project. My beloved hexagons. I'm doing them in a so-so brand/quality of yarn because it was my first ever big project that I started and I didn't want to splurge on yarn just yet.

My only problem with these projects is my inability to find a decent yellow among these brands that I buy (bought from Zellers and the like). They're either super soft yellows, suitable for baby attire, or super bright yellows that out-shine the rest of the colours.

I love these hexagons though. LOVE. Inspired by Moonstitches' blanket, with pattern help from Attic24 (with one more double crochet per cluster around the outer edge than she did, to match Moonstitches' stitches). I was living, breathing, eating, sleeping, singing, speaking, LOVING hexagons when I started this one.

Then I saw Moonstitches' Nanny McPhee granny square afghan, as well as pictures of the afghan FROM the Nanny McPhee movie that inspired it, and I, too, was inspired. So I gave that one a try with the same yarn as the hexagon afghan and then some.

This is me wishing I'd thought to take care of all my ends as I went along - but what fun is there in that? (Kate with good foresight would have warned herself that a little lame end-weaving periodically along the way will save her from a WHOLE lot of tedium at the end, when she just wants that blanket to be done, for crying out loud.)

And THIS is me realizing how far yet I have to go if I want it to be the same size as this other blanket.

Taking a step back and giving myself perspective like this usually leads to my temporarily losing interest in a project. (And never-ending projects like the Nana Blanket usually lead to nostalgia re: previous projects such as the Nanny McPhee. Silly Kate. So wishy washy.)

Here's Trev watching some sort of fishing program while surrounded by my yarn and such. He doesn't get how I can have so many projects on the go, but he doesn't need to.

Here's where I left off on the Nanny McPhee sometime back in March of this year. I'll pick it up again. I know I will. But I've got SOOoooo many things to try before I cycle back to being interested in granny squares again.

I love all the colours in this post!