Yarnification

Yesterday I got a bunch of crocheting in. Don had to have oral surgery yesterday morning, and for reasons I won’t get into because it’s a long explanation, it had to be done at the hospital. I thought I’d do some crocheting there, but I was clearly out of my mind when I was thinking that since we had to be there at six in the morning, which due to our work schedule is the middle of the night for us. (I think we both got maybe three hours of sleep tops.) Anyway, he is doing fine, but I was too exhausted to be able to crochet, so I did puzzles while I waited until the oral surgeon came to tell me he was done and everything was okay, and then I passed out for an hour on one of the little couches in the waiting area until Don was out of recovery and back in his room.

But later at home, I got things ready to start the throw rug I bought yarn for recently. Spent a while balling up yarn because three of the colors needed to be divided into two balls (and in the process scored three different throw/afghan patterns from the labels, all of which I liked), then got about ten or twenty rows done, took a break from it for a while, then got some more work in on it, so I’m close to a third of the way done with it now.

It turned out I did need a P hook to get the gauge more or less right. I had to buy a four-pack of Crystallites hooks at Walmart to get a P since I could only find single hooks up to a K (too bad I didn’t know I needed one when I was in Parkersburg last weekend!), so I have doubles of the Crystallites L and M, but I have another N now that’s a slightly different size than my Boye N, so that’s always good. There can never be too many hooks, right?

I’ve given up on the bootie socks for now—the yarn I’ve got isn’t suited to the pattern, or I’m doing something wrong, or something, because I keep splitting the yarn with the hook and messing it up. So I’ve switched to this pattern for this pair (no picture with the pattern, but I’ve made them before and they’re cute, though maybe not as pretty as the last pattern, and they work up quick.

After some more baby stuff, I’m going to get back to the beaded shawl; once I realized it would end up being a birthday gift instead, I decided to take a break from it since I’d been working at it a lot and getting frustrated, but I’m ready to go back to it now.