Simply Crafting

In my last post I mentioned that I was going to put away the computer for the weekend and take my knitting with me when we went camping this past weekend.  Well guess what?!  No camping got done this weekend, so no knitting got done either.  We were totally rained out all weekend so we didn’t end up going.  But have no fear, I’m still going to try to test out my knitting and camping experiment the first time we are able to go.  Hopefully we will see nicer weather this coming weekend and be able to go for at least one night.  And, if this is possible, then it will be this coming weekend that I dig out the knitting and put away the computer.

And…how was your weekend??

Well this weekend I won’t be online very much.  We are planning our first camping trip of the season and where we go there is no Internet connection available.  So there is no real point in me packing my computer now is there?  But have no fear, I have decided to pack something else.  I will be taking my knitting needles and a bag of yarn on the trip.  I figure I can get quite a bit knitted after the kids have gone to bed and it’s just hubby and I sitting outdoors.  This may be the only way I get my daughter’s afghan completed.  When I’m home I’m either cleaning, on the computer or outside with the kids.  So not a whole lot of knitted has been getting done.  But if I take it with me I can get quite a bit accomplished in the evenings.

So, if I don’t talk to you soon, don’t worry it’s just that I’m not home.  But I will definitely catch up with you all the first of next week and let you all know how the camping trip as well as the knitting went.  If it works out for this trip, then I will probably take the knitting with me on other trips this summer.

A few months ago I was trying to decide what I would do with the tons and tons of little balls of yarn that I had left over from other projects. So I got this stupid brilliant idea to look on the Internet for a knitted afghan pattern that I could use to make an afghan for my daughter. At the time I thought that this was a brilliant idea. That was until I discovered how much work one of these things take. It has been about six months now and I’m still working on it. But since I have it over half done, I refuse to give up on it.

So I thought I would post a couple of pictures so you can see my progress so far. Like I said, it’s going really slowly at the moment. But eventually it will get done.

I hope you all enjoyed the view and I would really love to hear from you as to what you think about this afghan. As I stated, this particular piece is for my daughter, so it’s not for sale.

So although I do make crafts for sale, I also make crafts for pleasure.  Right now I have a lot of projects on the go and hopefully within the next couple of weeks I will have completed most of them.  I am currently working on a knitted afghan for my daughter that is three quarters of the way finished, three scrapbooks (for all the kids) and a quilt.  So before I start any new projects, I plan to finish what I have started.  I have a really bad habit of starting projects and then not completing them.  But I have made a deal with myself and if I stick to the deal, then I know I will finish these projects.

The deal I made was I will not purchase any more crafting supplies until I get all these projects completed.  I think by making myself complete these projects while knowing I can’t make any more purchases until I do, I will finish them.  I’ll let you all know how I make out and if I in fact do stick to my deal.