According to the Crochet Guild of America, March is National Crochet Month.

I need to get working on my pattern. Orange barrel season is coming up soon.

I don’t want to go into great detail about my really awful week. But it peaked when my hard drive unexpectedly died. With my life on it. I never ever thought I’d even consider paying several hundred dollars to get my stuff back. But I am. For the 4 years worth of photographs I had/have on that drive. I’m trying not to get my hopes up that anything can be recovered.

In other news, I completed 28 granny squares for the month of February. With all the yarn I have, you’d think I had the colors I want to complete this afghan…but I don’t. I’ll just stash my squares until I acquire the necessary yarn.

The pattern writing is making progress. I have a complete page full of 1s and 2s, counting out my stitches. One day it’ll be a grown up, readable pattern.

I started to write the pattern and crochet!

And now I don’t want to finish. My mind has unfortunately started jumping to other projects to start. I sometimes feel like I have creative ADHD.

I’m going to keep at the pattern though. I hate having unfinished projects. I have a beanis I’ve been working on for over a year. I’ll take and post some pictures later of my progress.

I’ve been procrastinating the past few weeks on something I really need to do. I know it’s cause I’m scared.

But really there is no other way around it.

I need to start writing my own patterns. I have one that’s been in my head for many weeks. I even bought the yarn. Weeks ago. It’s been languishing in it’s plastic wrap since I brought it home. Each night that I work on my granny square, I think about starting the writing process next, but I let myself get distracted and move on to something else.

So I’m hoping by saying this out loud with possible witnesses, I’m going to start writing the pattern this week, tomorrow if possible. And if I’ve accomplished nothing by Friday, all the yarn is going back to the attic for the next month while I move on to other creative activities.

I also need to stop putting off filing my taxes. Math frustrates me.

This is the color scheme I decided on for my square a day this month. I don’t plan on the whole blanket to be these colors, cause that’d be one butt ugly blanket that would probably be appreciated only by the ’70s. I have a plan to make it less hideous.

This is similar to the hat I made a few weeks ago, but this is for a friend. Still having trouble getting a non-blurry photo of myself. I suppose a tripod or someone else taking the photo might have better results.

I found a pattern to crochet brains!!!! I’m so excited! Now I can have all the brains I want!

Forgot about color theory completely. No plan for these granny squares is just not going to work. I need a color scheme to go with, the random colored square blanket isn’t looking so hot in my head.

Monday starts a Thing A Day.

I’m planning to unofficially participate, but I’m not going to post all my stuff on their website. And not here either as I’ve decided, after way too much deliberation, to keep it simple and crochet a granny square everyday. Slowly working towards a goal of completing a blanket. I almost went with the familiar collage, I do love to make collages. I even considered doing a sketch a day, especially since drawing is one of my biggest creative weaknesses. But I’m totally into the yarn this winter, so I thought I’d stick with it, and it has the added bonus of being a relaxing activity.

Finally had success with baking bread!

I also made some soft pretzels that were a little on the crunchy side, but still tasty.