One a Day......week 3...

This weeks Tuesday Tally is brought to you from our second back yard. Down in the sand......

Where the ocean meets the earth (and the crochet work basket).....

 

Who is never afraid of a little sand as it is used to sharing space with many strange things............

Like Oranges for poor disgruntled lonely homeschooled boys who miss their friends because they have been sick for weeks on end and kept apart......

Yes we have been in much need of pure salty sea air to clear our bodies and souls of germs that seem to be seeking us out lately. So this week there were a few squares whipped up  down amongst the rocks while small children played and women nattered.

And of course on this day while one boy sadly told his mum of his loneliness and missing his best friend who is recovering from whooping cough, while he himself has just caught yet another fluey type bug off his siblings when he was almost better, after weeks struggling with a chest infection. It is a vicious circle, one which I am struggling with myself.  It certainly has been an emotionally draining roller coaster down here to say the least. 

But life goes on, and so does the drama of these shabby little squares........which have accumulated despite my misgivings and lack of yarn.....

Despite my randomly ordering three huge new balls of varying colours that I thought might work....

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Only to find that they are in fact slightly thicker yarn and they make the squares come out bigger.  And the green is too bright compared to the lighter green I used already. Sigh......(It is however, nicer to crochet with as it has just a little tighter weave and holds better.)

So I was left in yet another dilemma, should I start all over and use the thicker yarn? Should I just use the yarn I already have? Should I re-order more yarn in 5ply which is more likely to fit with the brown merino I am using already? (problem being that I have a trip coming up and it might arrive while I am away...arghhhhhh) Oh my friends, the choices were doing my head in!

So with much thought and deliberation and never really coming to a complete stand still. I decided that since I named this the Shabby Chic coat anyway, and since the colours so far actually go quite well together. I am just going to keep making those squares and I will make the bottom row in the slightly bigger ones so it has that little bit more flare! And do you know what? If it does not work out perfect, who cares? I will have a new house coat instead of an outdoors one! Worst case scenario, I will turn it into a rug! LOL

And YES, of course I am going to order more yarn when I get back. They so kindly sent me a colour sample chart and I have to say that I can see quite a few more projects coming up in the near future! Yes I can! 

I hope your one a day adventures are going far more smoothly than mine! 

Hugs and smoochies xoxoxoxox