{"id":960,"date":"2019-11-20T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2019-11-19T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:47:53","slug":"losing-track-of-finished-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/20\/losing-track-of-finished-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing track of finished pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

I \"\"definitely cheer myself on when I get the math right or plan the correct number of stitches for a new project. [Thanks to the practical use of algebra.] When it comes to finished projects counting is where the difficulty comes in. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one who gets excited when the math works out for a pattern repeat. I get more than a little excited especially when I have decided to combine a couple of different things and don\u2019t have to restart a project after the first try. I know I can count and in other aspects of my life, other than my own personal budget, I have to make sure I can count.<\/p>\n

When it comes to finished crochet projects though, my counting is off. I finished 75 baby hats and have them in three bags of 20 and a bag of 15. A few weeks ago I sent 20 scarves to an organization and was planning out how many I am sending to other organizations. The finished adult scarves were also in larger containers of 20 (each individual scarf in a plastic zipper bag).<\/p>\n

\"\"While working on my original goal of 10 hat and scarf sets, I lost track of what was finished and greatly underestimated what was done, because I hadn\u2019t counted in a while. The temperature dropped in Chicago and was been below freezing just after Halloween, so I figured out a time to take some things to a local organization. I thought I had only completed eight sets and I like to give away round numbers when I make donations – weird quirk, but whatever. Thinking I had 8 sets I was going to drop off five. Well, I had eight completed in one part of the house, another two in my work room; plus four partial sets (hat or scarf complete, but not both). Including the partial sets, that\u2019s 14 sets.<\/p>\n

I can do many things, but obviously I can\u2019t take a good account of what I\u2019ve made. \"\"As I finish items, I stash them away. I thought I still needed to complete more to meet my goal. On a recent road trip, I finished a set and hat for another. Eight plus two equals ten; plus four sets in progress is more than ten. I have gotten better in determining how much yarn to take on a trip, it is the speed of completion that I lose track of. When I finish a project, I just start something new, or if something is too large to transport, I start a new project. The same way I treat a book, if I only have a few pages left, I don\u2019t\u2019 want to carry two books, I start a new one.<\/p>\n

My new response when asked how I complete so many projects, I will say one stitch at a time. The same way that I lose track of completed objects – one stitch at a time.<\/p>\n

Happy crocheting!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I definitely cheer myself on when I get the math right or plan the correct number of stitches for a new project. [Thanks to the practical use of algebra.] When it comes to finished projects counting is where the difficulty comes in. I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one who gets excited when the math […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}