Crochet Marathon!

Those of you who read this blog know that I crochet a lot on the weekends. In between loads of laundry and household chores, I sit down and pick up whatever project I'm currently working on. However, I can occasionally surprise myself with how much I get done in a day, and yesterday was one of those days.

I decided that I wanted to see how many WUA squares I could get out of 2 skeins of Plymouth Encore. Each skein is 220 yards, in lavender and white. My first thought was to just make as many single color squares as I could get, but after I had made one of each color, I decided that it would be too boring to make all single color squares. So I started to find ways to combine the colors. Wow, did that make the squares grow quickly. I just couldn't stop crocheting!

I thought I might get 10 squares total. The end result? I got 9 squares, with just a smidge of the lavender left over. I think that if I had continued making single color squares, I would have gotten 8 with quite a bit of each color left over, so I am pleased that I decided to mix and match. I'm just really surprised that I finished that many squares yesterday. And no, my arms don't totally feel like spaghetti today! I crocheted quickly, but not at a painful pace.

One thing that helped was attending a "celtic rock" concert last night on the lawn of the town's municipal center. I had heard the group, MacTalla Mor, last April and was really looking forward to hearing them again. The town hosts a series of concerts every summer, and they are very casual affairs. While walking around at the intermission, I counted 4 crocheters (including myself) and 1 knitter in the audience. And let me tell you, crocheting in time to celtic rock music really speeds the process up! I finished 1 square and made 2 more during the concert.

So tonight's project is weaving in all those ends, and then hopefully I can get these squares and the daisy square in the mail by Wednesday. And that makes 2 items finished from Saturday's list.