20 365 Loose ends
Posted under Photo A Day 2011
This is what happens when you leave your shot until the light of the day is on its way out and you’re on a conference call…you start shooting random crap. In a change from the usual, I shot this with my long neglected nifty fifty. I just LOVE that lens, although I am craving a couple of other prime lenses too [greedy icon].
Presenting my latest crochet project, a Granny Stripe blanket. I’m using up various balls of wool in my stash and thus I’m not madly keen on the colour scheme (hence the black & white, again). I’m going to give it to my aged aunt for her birthday on the basis that old people have shocking taste anyway? Awaits collective intake of breath…
Despite this being a ‘stash buster’ project I have ended up buying a few balls of wool anyway. How does that work? It wasn’t going to work at all without a few additional balls. Does that mean one can never, ever bust the stash? Granny squares used to be about using up odd ends of wool, but now they are an art form of their own.
I’m about to take a break from this project to make some granny squares for Sarah London’s ‘crochet a rainbow’ project, making blankets for those affected by the floods in Australia. Details here for anyone else feeling the need to get hooky to help.
Excellent idea and I’m pretty certain every use the stash I’ve done had resulted in more purchases. Love your blog btw
My granny stripe has proved the opposite of stash busting – I keep buying new colours for it (and yes, deciding to do another 10 inches to make it a properly big blanket was a REALLY stupid idea)
Think I’ll still be doing mine when I’m a granny with appalling taste…
Ironically I have a huge stash to bust after making a granny stripe blanket for my daughter.