The Benefits of Organization, or How I Always Lose Stuff

Last spring I wrote down the pattern I made up for the brown squares that will go in my flower afghan.  When I decided to stop working on the blanket for the summer, I put everything - yarn, finished squares, crochet hook and pattern pieces into a basket and closed it up.  The point was - TRY NOT TO LOSE ANYTHING.

Raise your hand if you know what’s coming next.

Yeah, that’s right, I can’t find the piece of paper with the pattern for the brown squares.  I also apparently thieved the crochet hook from myself. Oh, and I didn’t write down which type of brown yarn I was using or save a label.

So it took a while to figure out what drugs I was on what I had been doing with this brown granny square.  I figured it all out again (eventually, after three failed attempts) and then decided I could improve it.  So half the squares will be of one sort and half will be a slight variation.  Hey, at least they’re all the same color now.

I did figure out the hook size and yarn type (it was only the second one I tried).

Crocheting shall continue apace. I have just four more squares to do!  That’s a little bit less of a woohoo because I still have to put borders on everything and sew it together, which is not a throwaway bit of work.

<crosses fingers it turns out well>