Switching Gears Part 1

After finishing the past project the other day (or a week ago, whatever), I decided to take a different approach to finishing things. Instead of trying to do one project until it's done, I thought I would maximize the potential hits of happy chemicals I could get by completing a billion tiny tasks. In other words, working on all the projects at once. Well, one at time, I still only have two hands. All of these projects are easily broken into smaller parts.

The first project on my list was born in my mind in the summer of 2015, or possibly before that, I can't remember, actually. But I know I didn't buy yarn and start working on it until July 2016. It took a long time to find a pattern that suited me and then it was a huge disappointment. Last time I picked it up to work on it, I had decided to switch gears rather than unmake what I had. So this time, I just finished putting a border on the piece I have. This picture doesn't really show the weird size/shape of it because it's folded in thirds, but you get the general idea:

The second project on my list is a crochet along called Around the Bases. I started it in November 2017. It starts with a choose-your-own square in the middle. I picked one called Blizzard Warning. And then each "inning" is a different border around the square. So my task was to complete the 5th inning, of 16....if I choose to do all of them




The third project was a crochet along from the Moogly blog. I started it in January 2018, but I was also making my life harder (as I do) by simultaneously working on the Moogly blog 2014 crochet along. So this is theoretically going to result in a stack of squares to sew together into a very large blanket. I had left off on a 2014 square that was bowl shaped instead of flat. My task was to un-crochet that and re-crochet it in hopes it would be flat. I don't know if I had miscounted or left out something, but it worked up perfectly.

The fourth project on my list was a Solar System crochet along that I began in January 2018. At some point I had started a second one in a different color scheme. That second one was in my backpack when it got stolen. And then one of the cats peed in my project bag on the first one. So my task was to bag up the yarn so I could launder it. Which I did right away that day and soaked it and the washing has taken several days but it's finally done. While I waited I had moved on to the next project on my list, but I feel like this post is long enough so I'm going to break it into two parts. Stay tuned.