Pandemic Projects

Apparently in times of distress and trauma, some people are overachievers and some people are underachievers. Guess which kind of people I am. So even though crafting is typically a good coping mechanism for me, I really struggled to settle into any kind of decent crafting rhythm. I halfheartedly picked away at a few different things here and there.

I have about 16 ongoing yarn projects. Some knit and some crochet. One is a temperature project which I always intend to work on daily because it's a small commitment, but I often skip a few days and create a larger task for myself. This could be a bit revealing about other parts of my life. Another project is a Wildlife Graphghan and I consider it my most current ongoing project. So I take the 14 past projects in turns alternating with Wildlife squares. I pick up the next project on my list and complete the next step of it and then I'll do a Wildlife square, then move on to the next past project. 

In late March, I finished a Wildlife square and then gathered the supplies for the next two squares in my Moogly 18/14 CAL project. I made a post about that project in March in anticipation for completing those two squares. Then I got distracted with the April Art Challenge. I had hoped that that challenge would help motivate me to get back into my crafting rhythm, but it didn't. I also participated in a Mystery CAL that I could make a post about but I never took pictures of the final result, so that can wait. Once I finally sat down and forced my way through the squares, it only took a couple of days to churn them out.

This is the 9th block in the 2018 Moogly CAL. It's called Coral and Stone, designed by Elena Hunt of Beatrice Ryan Designs. I'm not super pleased with how it lays and the shape of it, but it's anyone's guess how much of that is a me problem and how much has to do with the pattern. 

The 9th block from the 2014 Moogly CAL is called Op-Art and was designed by Jennifer Christensen. This one was very quick to work up although it would have been better if I'd had more contrast between the colors of yarn. 

I finished these about 2.5 weeks ago and have been very productive in the crafting department since then, but I think that's enough for one blog post.