More Crochet Projects

For a long time, I was in the habit of cross-stitching while watching TV in the evenings as a way to wind down.  However, I don't enjoy finishing cross-stitch projects, so I just shove them in a drawer until I'm ready to add the straight stitching and turn them into a pillow or wall hanging.  That's why I haven't bothered to document each of those projects. However, since I learned crochet, I've been making much better progress toward the final products.  Here are some I've worked on in recent weeks.

This was my first scarf.  It is essentially just a bundle of chains -- a way to learn the most basic stitch.

I looked at a lot of beanie patterns and felt overwhelmed, so I did the simplest one.  I don't need another beanie but needed the practice.  I love this scarf.  I found an old skein of yarn in my collection that looked like it would make a nice scarf, and it did except I ran out of yarn.  I looked it up online to order more and discovered that it was from something like 2008 and is no longer made.  Fortunately, I found a second skein of the same yarn when I dug down to the bottom of my yarn pile.

My son and daughter-in-law sent me a skein of Red Heart Granny Squares yarn for Mother's Day and I got addicted using it to make granny squares, so I ordered a bunch more in different color schemes.

I made a wall hanging for my first project.

However, I ordered more of the same yarn, so I plan to finish this by making it into a blanket, and I will use the wall hanging space for a quilt... if I can ever finish it.  Right now is not the best time for me to be quilting because we have a young puppy who needs constant supervision, and quilting requires some concentration.  Crochet is a fairly mindless craft once the pattern becomes second nature.