From hook to needles

No, I'm not talking about the book. I'm talking about switching from crocheting to knitting, at least temporarily. All the leaders in DD's Girl Scout Brownie troop & the sister Junior troop want to give the girls an ornament for their tree this year at the Christmas party. Now, it just so happens that I have that wonderful pattern from Aunt Kay for those marvelous stockings that I make last year and gave to Dorinda's class at their holiday party. So, at the next leaders' meeting that is at the end of this month, I'm going to offer to make stockings for everyone. They would be similar in coloring as the "Ghoul" Scouts I made last year. The Brownies would have brown stripes and the Juniors would have teal stripes. The leaders will have stripes of blue with the heel, toe, and cuff being the color that corresponds to the troop that they lead. Lisa's and Angela's, of course, will have to have some way of having green and brown on their's since they serve both troops equally. I'm going to have to practice with it and see what I can do.

So many afghans, so little time.

I have got to put the hook to yarn and get my 2 afghans on the move. One is a comfortghan that I'm doing for a friend of DH's who is fighting breast cancer. The other one is a request for a Christmas gift that I promised to do for a friend of mine at school. I've gotten stalled on both of them.

The comfortghan wasn't all that much to do since most of the squares were mailed to me, but I got my square done, all the squares edged and ready to go and I got bogged down with school and haven't gotten it put together. I'm going to get that done this week and get it delivered.

The gift afghan is a Star Wars afghan and I just can't seem to get going on it. I mean I've gotten started on it, but I can't seem to get going on it. I'm giving myself until the end of November to get it done, so I'm figuring that as soon as I get the comfortghan done and mailed off, that I'll be able to get going and stay going on that one. This is my absolute last one. I'll not be doing another one unless one of my little cousins decide to catch the Star Wars bug ;)

I can't take the Star Wars afghan squares to school to work on, because I really need to be uninterrupted when I'm working on the cross-stitch part. So, in order to achieve my scarf goal of one dozen for Dee's "60 Scarves in 60 Days", I'm going to dig out some scraps out of my scrap bag and work on scarves at school. I'm figuring that at 2 days a week that I have to wait almost 3 hours for DS to get out of class, I ought to get at least 2 scarves done each week. I should even have time to squeeze in some study time :D

I'm Back In The Saddle Again!

Well, not a saddle exactly, but I have successfully completed my first 2 semesters of college with a 3.7 GPA! I was a marshall at the Summer graduation and just a couple of days ago I got an invitation to join the Phi Theta Kappa. It's kind of the Beta club for 2-year colleges. I am so excited!

I have been away from crochet more than I've been able to indulge due to homework and studying for tests. My hooks have been feeling rather neglected :( My stress level has also told the tale of how little crocheting I've done. So, I decided that this semester I would start making a conscious effort to work in a little crochet in every day. It's been easier than I thought. Well, sort of. I took a request to do another Star Wars afghan (what was I thinking LOL) and then a friend of DH's was diagnosed with breast cancer and so I requested and was approved to make her a comfortghan. On top of all that, it's time for Dee's 60 Scarves in 60 Days! What a perfect solution to my wanting to find something extremely portable and quick to carry with me to school to work on in between classes.

This will be my 3rd year participating in this challenge. My first year, I only made one scarf. I used it to practiced my knitting with it. Last year, I made a whole rainbow of scarves. I literally had a scarf in each color of the rainbow. This year, I'm shooting for a dozen. Since we have 90 days this year, I'm thinking I'll be able to pull it off.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Yes, those are capitals and yes again, I am yelling :D One should yell when one is excited and wants to share one's excitement.

We all stayed up to see in the New Year and I spent a big part of that time journaling my recap of 2007. There was a lot that happened. I'm kind of glad that it is over, since most of it was life-or-death kind of stuff.

I'm looking forward to 2008. I am registered to start class in 2 weeks to finished my long-put-off accounting associates degree. It's my first step toward my goal of opening my very own yarn shop. I've got a rather full schedule for this semester and I am looking forward to getting into it. My baby boy, my oldest, is due to graduate this spring and I definitely have mixed feelings about that ;) I expect we'll be plunging headlong into his preparation for college in the near future.

So again: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! I wish everyone a happy, safe new year filled with peace, love and creativity.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX