First of all, WIP = Work In Progress,

As in, this work, this crochet work right here, it’s totally a work in progress, there is definitely, totes progress being made.

Pinky promise.

Anybody who crochets probably has at least half a dozen projects set aside. Ran out of yarn? Got frustrated? Lost the pattern? Made a mistake 5+ rows ago but can’t bring yourself to frog hours of work?

Here is my ode to the WIP (which I was so excited to post about on Wednesday, but didn’t get around to posting until Thursday, the irony). I’ll even give you my well crafted excuses as to why I’m not making any progress.

There’s my mermaid lapghan that’s making the round on all the craft blogs. Basically just repeats of shell stitches worked back and forth awhile until you join in the round and throw in some decreases. My mistake? I only used two colors, which resulted in one side showing off more blue, the other more gold. Basically, one color is worked only on the Right Side, one color only on Wrong Side. So when I went to join in round and it all began to work up on one side, the color changes looked all cattywampus. SO, now I have to accept my blunder and either adjust continually flipping the round to switch sides for each color, or never join and just make it flat and sew it up the back at the end. I dunno bruh. I just dunno.

There’s also this…rug? blanket? towel? I’d estimate it’s age at ~5 years. Some colorway of Lily’s Sugar and Cream I haven’t bothered checking for in stores. Not that I feel particularly motivated to buy more to finish it since I already have like 90 balls of that stashed. But I also don’t want to frog it. So here it lays.

This freehanded monstrosity. I’ll probably throw some handles on it and give it to mom. Mom’s love that shit. They’ll accept just about anything handmade.

My first hat on left, a hat I made last week on right for comparison. All I need to do is find a hideously deformed friend to give it to.

The crocodile stitch on this freehanded purse(?) hurt my hand, so I punished it by never working on it again.

The project that taught me the importance of dye lots. See that nifty pattern forming? I have several skeins of this Loops and Threads Impeccable left from another dye lot that do not work up anything like that and have since been frogged off. So, 4 years later here it sits. I don’t want to frog all my work, but I can’t continue. So it sits in my basket and mocks me. But hey, at least I never forgot to buy from the same dye lot again, even if I thought it wouldn’t matter if the yarn was variegated.

Crocodile Flower (I think). I don’t think I ever intended to make anything with this. It just happened. Maybe I’ll eventually make it the center of a Sophies Universe blanket, maybe a pillow cover, maybe it’ll sit in my basket another year. Who knows?

My current WIP, which actually sees some progress. This is just ~100+ of what will eventually be 288 flowers crocheted into a blanket called the Monet Blanket. The pattern recommends using Red Heart Unforgettable, which I have found to be rather more like Red Heart Unforgivable. The yarn is a real bitch to work with. I don’t think I fully appreciated how tedious 288 flowers would be. Let alone crocheting them into a blanket and sewing in 288 tails.