Twinkle, twinkle

In my recent stash diving adventure, I found a UFO that I'd left to stagnate for a year or so. It was taking up most of a box, and I had been knitting it out of a baby sweater I'd started and was frogging.

So I pulled it out and finished it:



It's the Little Star afghan that was ubiquitous around the crochet community for a while. My mom found some fluffy yarn at Big Lots, and I couldn't think of anything else to make with it. That's the white and pink stuff you see here. Those two colors didn't give me a big enough blanket, so I added some Bernat Baby Boucle, from a baby sweater I became disillusioned with.

So, yeah. It's done. I'm not sure whom I'll give it to.

And I can't resist putting up this picture of Baby Niece wearing the the Trellis I made her:



I also tried to buy sock yarn today, but the store didn't carry any solid-colored sock yarn. I was sad.

Another UFO sighting!

It seems that everywhere I look, I have UFOs. Those are different from my works in progress, because there hasn't been any progress on the UFOs in months. I really need to sit down and clear my UFO stash and have some projects finished and ready to show!

Anyway, reaching into the part of my desk where I keep my beads, I found this:



It's crocheting with seed beads, following a pattern in Beadwork Magazine from winter '04. For some reason, my kitties don't slant. Weird. Oh well. I'd love to sit down and finish this sometime, but other things take precedence at the moment!

I think that for every new project I start, I need to pull out and finish a UFO until all are either finished or frogged. I also need more project fidelity! Working on 5 things at once makes it hard to finish any of them.

I frogged that scarf last night, and had yarn to finish the Thujas! I finished them before work today, so all I have to do is weave in the ends tonight, and I'll have pictures tomorrow morning. Yay! A FO to show at last! I also need to stitch up that teddy bear tonight, so that I can finish the baby sweater and have it ready to send off by Monday! Wish me luck.