Ripple

For quite a while I've had some Lion Brand Homespun in the stash. Two skeins each of four different colors, and that was the sticking point for me. What do you do with two skeins of Homespun? All I could come up with was "matching hat and scarf," and I didn't really want to do that. So there it sat, for bloody years, until yesterday, when the penny dropped.

Forget what you do with two skeins of Homespun. What do you do with EIGHT skeins of Homespun?


A blanket, of course. Honestly. Lightning Wit strikes again.

So yesterday, in the midst of a March heat wave (that's not me being a wimp; it's a genuine heat wave. Yesterday was the fourth day in a row we broke the record high temperature - it was 86 degrees), I started crocheting a blanket.

I didn't check gauge first, because seriously, it's a blanket. Gauge, schmage. This has led to the blanket being nearly seven feet wide. I've thought about pulling back and starting over with a shorter chain, but you know, I've got about four hours and nearly two skeins of Homespun invested in this thing now, and I'm not starting over. There's not much question it's going to be wider than it is long, so now is the time for me to start announcing that I'm crocheting it lengthwise.

I did cast on Horatio's second sock, though, so all is not lost in the world of sock obsession.