I guess I crochet now....

I finally dove into my basket of sock yarn leftovers and put a Granny Stripe Blanket on the hook.  It took a couple of tries to get things rolling, but there is now a six foot wide blanket started. The extent of my crochet before has been simple edging on random knitting projects and a double handful of festive dishcloths one year. This will be a huge blanket, which is rather the point, my bed is a CalKing.  What it really means, my crochet will get better, eventually.

It's not beautifully planned like some.  This will be a true scrap blanket, working the yarn amount that I've picked next till I run out or am bored of the color.  This...is going to take a good while, about five months at an inch a day.  It is kind of a perfect project for my accidental year of working from stash though.

I also had a sock jump on my needles, because my brain said I needed them.  These are the Kia socks by Dawn Henderson.  The yarn is Junkyarns in the Sophie colorway.

I really need to stop casting on new things, even if it is all stash yarn.

Randomness and Things I Think Are Important

There are a ton of things on the needles right now.  May even get that crochet scrap blanket on the hook soon too!

As I knit quite a lot of gray last year, I made the (unconscious) decision to knit more purple.  The glorious blue-green is the first of three Sweaters for Other People.  As two of those people are over six foot and all three are taller than me I feel it deserves a capitalized title.
The Sea Witch hat finally got cast on.  The Shiny, Datura, Rizzo, as well as the sparkly vanilla sock, in Endora from Blue Moon Fiber Arts, are all for me.  The first Sweater for Other People is the Hyde's Hooded Sweater  for Darling Son.  It will be hooded, long and rather a behemoth, but it's knit on largeish needles so it should go kind of quickly. I hope.

The other thing that is still consuming my personal brain space is the discussion of race in the fiber community.  No, it is not going away.  Yes, it is important.   A few weeks of discussion does not automatically fix a major societal problem in the same way a few rows of stitches do not a sweater make.  I will continue to randomly signal boost it.  This article on Vox sums things up nicely.  This is the blog the lovely humans have started, Unfinished Objects.  The Militantly Mixed podcast was recently brought to my attention, there's a Twitter too!  This kid...he is just absolutely amazing!  Please, go take a peek at Jonah's work.

I am a nerdy, over 40, white woman who rarely leaves her house and who talks more to her knitting than to other humans. I still try to practice what I preach when I do leave the house.  I am frequently awkward, but as that is the normal for me, it's all I've got to give.  This is my favored platform just because, by current standards, I am old fashioned in that I prefer my computer to my phone. 

Whatever method, you have to at least try.

I knit a hat.

It's the Braineater by Vi Caughran, the large size, done in Husband's current college colors (I call it the Boise State Braineater).  Happily, the hat does fit him beautifully...me, not so much!  I do apologize for the less than ideal photo.  It's been raining for days here, so the light is awful...and I did take the shot selfie style and blind.
At some point I will remember to take pictures of the four other projects I've finished so far this year, out of the fifteen I set for myself, all stash. 

As it's Valentine's Day:

And so do I!  I am absolute shite at demonstrating it, but whether we are just internet acquaintances or someone I have known (and likely not seen or even talked to) in more than twenty years;  I love you.  I think of you often.  I probably know what is going on in your life (at least superficially) and wishing good things for you always. (The embroidery pattern is from Urban Threads.)

Please do remember that you are loved.