No photo today...sorry

I couldn't get a pic taken of my current project for you to check out. I hope I can this weekend. Trust me, not a lot will get done between now and then. I was thinking today while taking a bubble bath (I do that often - take a bubble bath - not think) about how I will aproach this blog. For those of you that might be reading (and who knows if anyone really reads their blogs if you don't get any comments?), and are crocheters you'll know what I'm talking about most of the time. There is a certain creed about working with yarn it seems - it's quite customary to have several or many projects going on at once. I am no different. I actually have three right now. One is a blanket with a real pattern and an intended recipient - my sister. I have been working on it for far too long. Since right before Christmas if I remember right. I made a blanket for my Mom for Christmas and my sister liked it so I said I would make her one. I chose the colors and although they are far from conventional they somehow 'work'. Very light green and a multi-color called Woodsy. As its name implies it has dark brown, rust, dark green, green and a lighter shade of tan/yellow. No light green though, which really makes this an interesting combination. It is almost done. Honest. This is where I have the most problems finishing my blankets with a color pattern. I get right up to a point where they are almost complete and I lose interest. I don't have this problem with my other types of work I do. I will take a pic of this project intended for my very patient sister and from this point forward will refer to it as P#1.

P#2 is my favorite type of project. I have a lot of random colored yarn - as most crocheters and knitters do. I cannot bare not to use them, so I absolutely LOVE making what I call a scrap patterned blanket. I use a ripple or chevron pattern a lot. In fact, I would say I use it in 90% of my work. Hey, I warned you early on I do not do anything fancy! I wasn't kidding. Anyway, I try not to repeat a color when I am making these scrap patterned blankets. I will take a pic of this current one, too. It is in the early stages and it will be interesting (to me anyway) to see how it progresses - both in the measure of time and colors.

P#3 is probably the oddest of them all. I call it my leftover blanket. I finished one of these some time ago and absolutely love it. It found a place with my family on our couch. I will take a pic of the finished one and also of the one currently in progress. Let's say you have a piece of yarn from a skein about 6 ft long. Now that is hardly enough to start anything with, but for me it's perfect for my leftover blanket. I single crochet colors all in one big piece. So I would simply tie this 6 ft piece of yarn to the previous color I was using and single crochet it as long as it would go. Is it unpredictable? You bet. Is it interesting? Absolutely. I love doing them.

I try very hard to crochet at least one hour a night Mon-Thur. On Fri I get to crochet a little longer because I don't have to get up early for work. Saturday and Sunday is my day to maybe crochet for longer. My husband watches a lot of TV. He loves Law & Order (all of them) and CSI (Las Vegas), so he never runs out of episodes to keep him busy. I do not like watching them over and over and over...and over... So I get to crochet while he does. It works for us.

I was debating with either using a song of the day (as in my other blog) or a thought for the day. I decided to go with the thought for the day.. So here goes > What does it mean to help someone? In Kathleen Lindley's book In The Company of Horses she says, "For me, the most striking thing about the idea of help was that it is only help if the recipient sess it as such" and "When it comes to meaning well, I believe we can think we mean well, and it can even feel like we mean well, but if the recipient doesn't see it as such, then it isn't meaning well."