Reminder to self.....

.....making notes on a project would be really useful!

 When I was cramming neatly storing my yarn stash in the base of the bed in the guest bedroom, along with said yarn I came across a few WIPs.  Needless to say, none had any pointers as to who they were being made for, how large they were going to be,  size of hook, etc 😒  In my head, you see, I live in this little fairy tale world where each time I start a new project I will gaily work away until it's finished.  In the real world, of course, I am all too easily distracted by other projects to make, lovely new yarn begging to be purchased, etc, etc 😏

And so it was with this little bundle of yarn and an already-started project.  I must have previously begun to make something and changed my mind, judging by the little balls in the organza bag.  I hardly need tell you that once again, the yarn is my favourite Stylecraft Special double knit, no doubt purchased from my equally favourite online store Wool Warehouse ~ and no, just in case you are wondering, I don't get anything for mentioning either the yarn or the store 😄

The yarn is a very pretty combination of pink, green and white called Spring Marl which seems to be discontinued now, so goodness knows how long I've had it stashed away!

I think my original intention had been to make a corner-to-corner blanket.....oh, a blanket ~ what a surprise, eh 😉 I could see that I had reached the width of what I was making as I'd started to decrease on one side whilst continuing with the increases on the other.  Now, to be perfectly honest, I really don't think that this was going to work very satisfactorily as it didn't seem quite wide enough to me.  I wonder if that's why I abandoned the project ~ perhaps I'd realised that I just didn't have enough yarn to make a suitably-sized blanket?  And, of course, I also have absolutely no idea who the blanket was originally intended for 😄

Anyhoo, rather than frog the whole bloody thing I've decided to turn it into a shawl instead.  I've been planning to make one as a Christmas gift for my Mum and as she loves pretty, pastel colours this will be perfect.  It's okay, by the way, she doesn't use a computer so I'm not spoiling the surprise LOL

I frogged back to where I'd previously started to decrease, so that I can continue making the shawl wider.  It looked very much like I'd been using a 4mm hook and when I restarted working on the shawl, I was very happy to find that was indeed the case!  I'm alternating work on the shawl with the granny square blanket but I don't think it will take too long to finish 😊