restarting a project

 Today, I got to thinking about the corner-to-corner blanket I started out of one of those color-shifting cakes of yarn. I started it back in 2022, but because it's so huge, and it's all garter stitch (so: easy to get bored with), I haven't worked on it much. I am getting close to done; I'm on the decrease section so it gets a tiny bit smaller (well: one stitch) each row, because you decrease.

But I'd like to be done with it some time, so maybe I try to work on it some (I have a long weekend this weekend, and there's neither bell choir nor Sunday school - the teacher is having minor surgery, and bells don't restart until next week. 

I admit what pushed me to pull it back out this evening was a flying trip to Sherman - I needed to go to Ulta (almost out of a couple of cosmetics I use, and I figured given how unreliable package delivery sometimes is now, I didn't want to trust to order it). I had thought of going tomorrow; but it's supposed to get cold and at one point they were talking about "there might be a few flurries" though I think that's been taken out of the forecast. And I wanted to bigger grocery shopping than I can locally. So I ran down there. And wound up on the side of the interstate where Michael's was (There are two of those strip type shopping malls pretty much across 75 from each other; the one with the Ulta is where JoAnn's used to be; Michael's is in the other one). So I decided: okay, I'll look quickly in Michael's and then cross over on the overpass and do the stuff I need to do at Ulta.

And they had more of those yarn cakes, and one set of them were on sale (and I had a coupon) and there was a pattern for an interesting crocheted blanket.

And I admit it: I'm a sucker for those color shifting cakes and I really do have too many ahead. But I had a COUPON, see. So I got them. And then I thought, "I really should finish the blanket I have going on" (never mind this one is crocheted, and the one I've been working on is knitted).

So this evening, after doing a few things (I wanted to change the bedsheets, and given I now have six pillows to prop up on/keep myself sleeping on one side, and multifarious stuffed animals on the bed, it's kind of a preoduction) I got the blanket out. 

I'm closer to done than I remembered but it will still be a while. But the nice thing about projected like these is that they do wait for you.