Projects I’ve finished before Christmas. The cowl isn’t done yet but it’s getting there.
Don’t mind the messy background but I managed to finish these three bandanas in two days for three tweens in my family asking for them. It felt super nice cause I got to use some more of my yarn. I hope I can make more next year to use up what I have.
After I finished the beanie, I still had a lot of the cream colored yarn leftover. So I decided to start making fingerless gloves. Every time I’m on campus and I’m working on my laptop, my hands start getting too cold. I don’t want to wear gloves because I can’t feel the keyboard well. I think this will be an accessory that will be used often.
I just finished one of the gloves, time to make the other one. I’m 100% sure I’ll still have leftover yarn from this but I think I’m gonna make a huge hair bow to use when my hair gets a bit longer and I can tie it up. Again, I’m taking my time with these projects, I don’t want to just make it for the sake of the product. I want to enjoy the process too.
That’s it for project updates. I hope it doesn’t take me forever to finish the other one.
Pattern is called Textured Fingerless Gloves by CarolAnne Creations. I found it on Ravelry when I was searching for free accessory patterns using DK weight yarn in crochet. I’m kind of in a crochet kick right now after being steeped in knitting for a good chunk in the beginning of the year. The yarn I’m using is the same as the beanie, Paintbox yarns, DK.
I finally finished my beanie! Just in time for all the snow to come in. It took me a lot longer than I usually would. Mostly because I actually took my time to finish it. It wasn’t a priority, just something I can do at the end of a long day. Back then, my priorities were all over the place. I would procrastinate to the nth and would finish a book or sprint through a project rather than do what actually mattered (aka school or work). In the spirit of trying to change for the better and also not injure myself, this time I managed to stretch out this project in about a week.
The difference? I actually appreciate it more, unsurprisingly. The size was the right one, I remembered for the most part how to do the project, and I now know where this particular yarn went. I have so much more projects that I made just cause and in the future I’ll unravel them and re-use the yarn into something different but for now, here’s to learning how to slow down.
I can’t wait to think of what project I want to do next.
Current project. I’ve been taking my time with them now. It’s gonna be a beanie, which is perfect because snow’s finally here. I love frogging old projects to reuse the yarn. Probably why I still haven’t made a dent in my huge stash lol yarn is paintbox DK. To pompom or not to pompom?
