Time to Get Back to 20Time

If you're like me, you haven't done much with your project in a few weeks.

Amirite?

I did sit down towards the end of last week an evening or two and got quite a bit of crocheting done. My big concern now is that I'm going to run out of yarn! I can't really justify a trip to Hobby Lobby right now when we're supposed to be social distancing.

I still haven't mastered the scrubbie.

Here's some stuff I did make over spring break, though:

 Bierocks; I always make these on breaks!

 For St. Patrick's Day. I also made an Irish beef stew, Irish soda bread, and lemon-lime poke cake (didn't get any pictures, though).

 Chicken Tetrazzini. I let everyone pick one dinner and one dessert they wanted me to make. This was my husband's pick.

 Taco chicken to freeze and use later.

 My daughter wanted breakfast burritos.

 My husband's dessert choice was chocolate meringue pie.

 My son's choice was chocolate pecan pie, and I made home made whipped topping for this (NOT Cool Whip--nothing against Cool Whip though. My daughter ate Cool Whip for lunch this weekend). For his "special dinner" he chose sausage pizza, which is not special at all, so I didn't take a picture of that!

 My daughter's dinner choice was chicken fried steak. We made REAL mashed potatoes, and even used the peels to make potato skins. No food waste here!

 Carmelitas, or, the reason I might end up on My 600 lb life when this is over. I can't stop eating these! 

 Chicken and noodle soup to go in the freezer for later.

Homemade donuts! Did you know the donut case at Dillons, where we stop and shop every Sunday morning, is shut down for now? I had to make my own! 

I know that looks like pandemic cooking, but it isn't. This was all stuff I had planned to do before things got turned upside down. Baking and cooking has kept me busy enough to keep me off the edge this week!

Anyway, I think it's time we get back to our projects for a couple of reasons. First of all, we started it, and I got really good feedback from a lot of you. I do think it's a worthwhile use of our time, so let's finish it! Secondly, I think this is a really worthwhile use of our time NOW. I am consuming WAY too much media, and frankly, I don't think it is doing me much good. Working on my project is a nice mental break from that for me, and I hope it is for you, too. Finally, I realize everyone's situation is a little different, and some of you may not be bored at all. You may be caring for younger siblings or even have a job that is essential at this time, but if you ARE bored, it's a great time to work on your project! Some of you may never get this kind of time in your life again. (Again, I say that knowing you may not actually be "locked down" and may be working.) Obviously, 20% of our "school" time now, is quite a bit less than it was, but I would say aim for at least half an hour per week on this. If you have more time, spend more time!

And finally (and I will put this in google classroom as well), we are going to push back the finish date for our projects. I've had to change some of what we were going to do at the end of the year, so now we have a little more time to play with on this. I'll get that final due date to you, but it will be AFTER April 9. Please continue to plan on making a presentation of some sort--the sky is REALLY the limit now! We'll utilize some of our online meeting technology to make that happen.

Be well.

Getting There

I still have a lot of work to do to get this thing perfected, but I did make a little progress last night!

My scrubbie is not done, and I'll have to tear it all out and start over because I don't remember where I left off, but I did get all the way "out" and started working back in. As you can see, it's shaped like a hexagon. I'm not sure what's causing that! Also, I still keep ending up with extra stitches, and I cannot figure out why. I do think I'm probably stitching a little too tightly, so I'm going to try to loosen it up on my next try.

I finished another hot pad, but this one is wonky because it doesn't make a nice square; it's more like a rectangle. It just needs closed up in the back, and I think I have enough of that yarn to make another one.

Big crocheting weekend coming up for me, I hope! NO KIDDIE SPORTS this weekend, or anything else to do, so I hope I get some time to work on this and figure this scrubbie thing out! You work on yours, too! Let me know how it's going!

Still Frustrated

Just here to say I still haven't gotten anywhere with the magic circle, and I've now looked at several different tutorials. I think I found one that I will like, but it doesn't actually use the magic circle method, and I don't actually know if it's going to work for me, because every time I tried to play it last night, it would go black at a point I really needed to see! Somehow, I kept ending up with extra stitches at the end of each round, and I actually had a big blob of yarn; I don't know where that came from or where it was supposed to go!

I'm hoping to sit down tonight with some decent WiFi and get this all worked out, but if not, it will remain a spring break project. I can work on my potholders until then!

And if anyone is counting, I have probably torn out my magic circle starts about 15 times now. It's FRUSTRATING!