Mid-Month Crochet Check-In

Argh!

I seriously do NOT want to do this.

I have been SO sick since December, since the second week of December, that I have completed very little at all since then.

I let people down by not completing projects. I have holiday gifts partially made. I have tops I was making for myself that either didn’t get finished or were never begun in the first place.

Then January arrived…and I was still ill.

I wanted to be able to make something that would not take a lot of time, but would make me feel as if I had accomplished something.

Enter a gift card for Christmas and a sale on super-bulky weight yarn.

I bought enough, or what I assume is enough, Lion Brand Re-spun Thick and Quick yarn in various deeper colors (mostly), to make a queen-sized blanket that hangs over the sides well enough to keep everyone covered up all night long no matter who tosses and turns and steals blankets.

I am using an 8mm hook. It is one of the beautiful wooden crochet hooks in a set my husband bought me for Christmas. The label calls for a 9mm or larger hook, but I wanted something a bit smaller.

I am working a single large granny square, which is my wont, and thus far it is turning out lovely.

However, there are days I lift this heavy thing onto my lap and can do little more than make sure the hook is in the loop to begin to crochet…and that is more effort than I can continue.

I have completed about forty rounds on the blanket. It is a large, HEAVY, throw-sized blanket at the moment, but it still lacks a good ten to fifteen inches all the way around, I think, after giving it a good eyeballing while it was spread out on the bed to size-check it recently.

This means…I have completed exactly squat thus far, but I do have high hopes for February, erm, perhaps, March…

How are your New Year’s projects coming along?