What Was I Thinking | Suzanne Earley

Dear Murphy,
Didn’t you have enough fun with me yesterday? It’s not that you ruined my day, but you sure didn’t make it all that great, either. I won’t even list it all, you know the kind of havoc you wreaked on my yesterday.

Don’t shake your head at me like that and give me that wide-eyed innocent look. You do too know.

You just can’t help yourself, can you?

First, the order from the distributor — the 2 things I especially need for customers? You just HAD to make sure that those were on backorder. Very kind of you.

And now this quilt? COME ON ALREADY.

I know I checked the measurements. Well, OK. I checked before I squared it up, but sheesh, I didn’t take that much off in order to square the fabric up. And yes, i should have measured it again before I got it pinned all the way on, but if I had, I’m guessing you wouldn’t have felt the need to interfere with me.

So, you’ve had your fun.

Please go bother someone else,

Sincerely,

You have these project, I know you do.

The ones that don’t ever get finished and when you come across them make you think, What Was I THINKING???

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This ill-begotten afghan is at least 10 years old. It’s crochet. I think I have the book it came out of on my shelf somewhere should I ever want to refresh my memory on the pattern. I think it involved a lo tof treble crochets.

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The yarn is 98% acryclic, 2% poly. The texture of the yarn and the bobbles actually feel pretty nice, but oh dear lord, what was I thinking?

Right now it measures 18 by 86. I think the idea was to make it big enough to cover my 6’4″ husband. Smother him is more like it. Even with just this much done, the darn thing is quite heavy. I’d hate for him to be suffocated by it.

I remember having to go back and purchase additional yarn once I realized how much it would take to actually make it this size. I think there are as many as 4 skeins already used and there are ELEVEN more skeins in the tub.

Eleven. More.

I can’t decide if I should shove this back in the tub and back under the shelf (out of side, out of mind…) or if I need to figure out what to do with it. Any suggestions?

Any suggestions that don’t include finishing it?

TTFN-

Suzanne