Knitting vs. Sleeping

I have GOT to get to bed at a more reasonable hour.

But lately I've been playing with new yarn, starting new projects (well, with the new yarn, you kind of have to knit something – and a swatch just doesn't cut it for me), and pulling out my stash and looking at it, trying to think of what to do with it.

And that leads to being inspired to do NEW projects.

And that's great and all, except I have a bunch of unfinished projects that are taking up space in this one bedroom apartment of mine. A baby blanket for a child that is now 2 years old (and she was a coworker from an old job, and we don't really talk), an afghan made out of HomeSpun (which sounded good at the time, but it's a bit of a pain to crochet with), and an afghan that I intended to make for a dude I liked, but he turned out to be a complete bastard.

The baby blanket is barely started – I can use that yarn (it's cotton) for something else. The HomeSpun afghan – I think I'll finish it and see how it goes. There's not a whole lot you can do with HomeSpun. And the afghan for my Intended – luckily I hadn't gotten too far, and my technique was horrendous, so it's going to be frogged.

I'll probably use that stuff for a blanket for charity or something.

The main goal here is to keep me busy and free up some room. I have a whole lot of acrylic, which isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but there is more to life than what the local craft store carries.

Meanwhile, I get to slog through another day in a fog because I couldn't put that new felting project down. And you know I completely intended to wake up early this morning so I could do a few more rows.

I think I'll do that right now.