Weaving in those loose ends

As I mentioned in my food for thought piece the other day, Steven and I are gearing up for a HUGE clearout. So I thought I would make a start by clearing out my crafting spaces of unfinished projects, they are nearly all crochet projects and it's the weaving in that needs to be done.

It's really odd that this is the part I put off, when you get down to it you can probably weave ends in a couple of hours, if that.  But there's just something a little uninspiring about doing it, even although you will have a fabulous finished item at the end!  Or maybe that's just me!

So here is what I've been doing over the past few days, one is completely finished, the other I'm still crocheting, but weaving in as I go, much better!

This one is good to go, it was supposed to be a gift for Steven's Mum on Mother's Day (in the UK Mother's Day is in March, woops missed that deadline!) but now it will be for her birthday in July!

This next one I'm way ahead of the game as it's for my niece for her Christmas! I'm still working on it, but as I'm on the border it won't be long before it can be tucked away until it's time to forward it on to Santa for delivery on Christmas morning.

 

ends woven in on work so far!

first 4 rows of border done

I'm on the next set of 4 rows in a darker pink, which will be followed by 4 rows in a very light pink and finished off with a picot edge in purple.  I also plan to put a few random daisy type flowers on or around the G, haven't quite got that set in my mind yet.

As you can see from both projects I have been up to my eyes in shades of pink and purple for quite some time now!

My final blanket on this post I made for myself before Christmas and I made it to use up coloured wool I had left over from making a massive granny square scarf for my sister's Christmas. (I will try and get pictures of it from her, it's fabulous even if I do say so myself!!)

As you can see I had an abundance of colours left over (still do actually) and my rainbow blanket just came to life.

It doesn't really go with the chocolate and turquoise colour scheme of the bedroom, but hey, I love it and in Scotland a cosy blanket can be needed at anytime of the year!  And for the eagle eyed amongst you, yes, those accent cushions feature in my jewellery photos and I made those too!

My next project will involve the non pink and purple wools left in my stash from my Christmas makes, I have my eye on a couple of things from the blogosphere - a hexagon granny square blanket and a stripey bag, I may have enough for both!!

With ends woven in it feels great to have projects completed so, if you are like me and move on to the next thing before finishing off, stop procrastinating and get it finished, you'll be glad you did!

Happy weaving in!

xoxox