I can hear the sirens... I feel as if I am trapped in the middle of the street, with a broken leg and madly hobbling to get out of the way, as a firetruck is bearing down on me with sirens wailing. I swear I am going deaf.
Yes I have an end weaving problem on the go here. You see it all started with my brilliant idea of making my son a full afghan. At first I started out with these lovely dragon squares and my son was quite taken with that idea. Then I realized that the dragons were tacked on after the fact. Uh-uh. There is no way I'm making a super-sized afghan AND tacking on little dragons afterwards. So we went back to the drawing board. I found lovely Nordic Afghan squares (by Priscilla Hewitt) and with a little hook, colour and yarn change I had a winner. My son picked out the colours and away I went.
At first the afghan was to be a whopping 7x9 feet in size. Realizing I may be getting a bit silly here, I trimmed it down to a simple 6x7 foot one. If that doesn't last him a lifetime, size wise, I'm totally hooped on buying this kid clothes.. anywhere!
So I began hooking away. Normally when I'm working on squares I stop after making two or three and weave in all the ends. Well the first set I had over 14 to do at once. It took an entire evening and much cursing (it is the most annoying part of squares.) I promised myself I would not do that again.. And here I sit.. with squares waiting to be weaved. I can not attach rows until I weave.
Now I promised myself I would not touch anything else unless I was consistently working on this afghan. My hook has not moved in a week. Not once. I'm going through really BAD withdrawals here. But have I weaved in any ends? Noooooooooo.....
I swear these squares will be the death of me yet. There is just something about them. They are too soothing to make. I start and I don't want to stop to weave in. (Now I know normally that sounds like a good excuse.. but this is the worst I have ever been about weaving!!! I swear!!!!) Maybe they have some hypnotic technique written into the pattern? Darn you Priscilla! Your squares are so wonderful that I can't stop! HELP!!!!
And lets not get started on the whole.. I did not buy enough yarn to begin with and it took me two months of pure panic trying to get enough yarn to ensure I can finish the project!!
Someone, please smack me next time I take on some insane project like this again. (and you know I will as soon as I'm done this one!
*grumbles.. and mumbles.. and stares at all these squares that must be weaved in*
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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