Crochet eats yarn.

I've been thinking about projects to use up some of this mountain of yarn I have, and also contemplating the large amount of cotton and cotton blend yarn a friend gave me a couple of years ago. Among the cotton was 20 balls of Patons Grace in a nice medium green called Fern, which is a color now discontinued, but Wasabi is very similar.

Asking around on the #ravelry channel, I got a suggestion of the Sunny Spread. I haven't done crochet in a while, and that looked like a good use of the yarn. Once I got started, I realized that duh, crochet uses about 3 times as much yarn as knitting for the same space. This is good. I can get 5 squares out of one 50g ball of yarn, plus a bit extra which will be used for seaming. I'm currently planning on either a 9 x 11 blanket, or a 10 x 10, depending on if I need the extra yarn from the 100th square for seaming.

I am planning on buying a couple balls of another color for the outer border, however, as I think it'd set off the green better. I have made an exception in my diet that I can get yarn to finish a project that uses stash, as long as there's more stash than new yarn. I'll try not to abuse that too often, though. I already got 400g of Knit Picks yarn for my argyle socks, which I'll talk about in a later post.

I've 6 squares crocheted so far, it's a very easily memorized pattern:

Challah cover, finally!

Well, it's not tomorrow, but I did get a picture of it. It's finished blocking, I just haven't unpinned it yet. Now to figure what to back it with, but I will wait on that until next Thursday when I get paid and can go buy either some fabric, or a second-hand shirt I can tear up, to back it with. I'd like to get a blue similar to the foam squares I'm using, since it's a Jewish piece.

Size 30 crochet thread, 1.25 mm hook. The border pattern I got from online, and I charted the letters myself from a alefbet I found online as well.

Latest crochet project.

This is the latest (and only) progress shot of a challah cover I'm making for a friend's wedding gift. It's in size 10 thread, using a 1.25 mm hook. It's 138 rows long. I'm redoing about 4 rows that I realized I screwed up earlier.