Here I go again...

I decided to do another prayer blanket, but to use the colors I want, I have to finish my snowflake scarf and my MIL's lapghan....Well, I got to the point in the snowflake scarf where I'm on the last of 7 sections. I laid it out to take a picture for ravelry and noticed that it didn't line up! My perfectionist nature has kicked in again and I stopped because I'm actually debating on taking it apart to the point of error, which is 30 rows ago!!!! Ugh! I can't make my mind as to whether or not I'm going to let it be and just finish it (since I'm only 32 rows away)...Ha! Who am I kidding? Of course I'm going to take it apart! LOL But I don't think I'm going to do that today. I think, since I moved on to the next shade of blue and am done with the shade I need for my MIL's lapghan, that I'll finish that off first. I can't wait to be done with them! I'm so close!!!

Grab your partner, do-si-do....

I wanted to do something special for my mother-in-law. She was an amazing source of support while my husband was spending his year in Korea, and I wanted to make her a little something to show her my appreciation for that. I settled on Happy Yellow House's Do-Si-Do Lapghan pattern to use, but, of course, with colors that stood out to me as "her." In hindsight, I think I should have used a soft white (or off-white/aran) instead of the country blue. I think that would have made the colors flowed better and not looked too…overdone? But I know she'll like it, just the same. :) And as it’s rare that I do a pattern as written, anyhow (lol), in this one, I tweaked it to where there are 5 solid blocks and 4 multi-colored ones instead of the other way around. I'm pleased with the overall effect of the 4 "pinwheels" instead of 5. I think that has a lot to do with my elementary school days, oddly enough....

When I was in 2nd grade, I was so excited...in P.E., we got to learn how to square dance! I'd looked forward to that my whole 1st grade year! lol And when you square dance, of course there's 4 people per group. Unfortunately, I don't really now remember the steps in square dancing, but I remember that "do-si-do" was my favorite. (Hmmm...maybe that had something to do subconsciously with why I picked the pattern....I wonder...) And I remember that it was the part when you and the person across from you skipped to the center, hooked elbows, swung around and skipped back into place, and then the other pair copied. Or maybe it was with the person next to you...I don't remember that detail, now. LOL But that's my excuse behind having only 4 multi-colored squares instead of 5. Four makes more sense to me. There were 4 people in each group (or "square") that danced together. So why have 5 "spinning" blocks? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with how the pattern's written. In fact, when I started out, I had every intention of following that pattern, to a T. It just rarely ever ends up being that way. LOL I made a block of the purples swapping places and decided that I liked the dark purple as the "pinwheel" better, so I wanted to even out 2 of the dark pinwheels with the light. And that meant, unless I was going to undo the blocks I'd already finished (which I most certainly was not!), I'd have to alter the pattern and change it to 4 pinwheel blocks instead of 5! :) Since I got that order of yarn in the mail, I can finish it now, and then send it on it's way to my MIL.....

"It came! It finally came!"

And for those of you that may not be aware, I just quoted the movie Toy Story, though my excitement of what came has nothing to do with a rocket. LOL Can you tell that my almost 3-year-old (YIKES! He's almost 3!?!) watches that movie?.....A lot? LOL No, what I'm excited about is a lot less explosive.....hahahaha....that's funny, b/c, well, I'll explain in a minute. My package was yarn. YAY FOR YARN!!! :D I've not really gone out and mingled with the Italians yet, and haven't wandered into any of their shops to see what kinds of yarn they have, but I know that the BX (Base Exchange) doesn't carry any yarn. It really is a tragedy, in my world. But I found a place online where I can buy yarn that is reasonably priced, and the first thing I ordered through them came a couple days back. Now I can finally finish the projects that have been sitting around, waiting to be finished, but unable to get them done for having run out of yarn. Now the funny part is that one of my projects is actually titled on Ravelry as "Pink Explosion." LOL......*crickets chirping*....ok, fine, so I have an off sense of humor. lol

Anyhow, I know all my blogs and social pages (myspace, FB, CM, etc.) have all been pretty quiet for a while. I've just not really been in much of a writing mood as of late. I've been in more of a pondering mood, which tends to lead to long silences from me in the cyber world. But today is a really good day. (I think that partially has to do with the fact that I got to sleep in until almost noon today, since The Husband was home to get up with the boys, and after yesterday, I really needed that sleep! LOL) So here I am! :) I should really catch up on my blogging now that the stopper has been pulled from my silence.....lol And then it's off to finish the umpteen million projects I've been almost done with for months, now....(Okay, so the "umpteen million" is exaggerated....the "months" is not....) Time to get crochet-happy! :D