Sometimes you start a project and it goes for a while, then it stops. If you’re lucky you may pick it up again and start where you left off and all’s good, but at other times there’s nothing else for it but to start again.
I liked the yarn, and the colour variation that two strands of double knit gave, as well as the thickness which for a laptop cover I was keen to have. I like the pattern. I’d crocheted a baby blanket in this pattern previously - the baby is now two and a half! - but I couldn’t get into the flow for my laptop cover, which I so desperately wanted.
I know right, it didn’t make sense.
So I frogged it.
Frogging is a crochet slang for ripping it out - ribbit, ribbit - so frogging it, it makes me smile every time.
So with a large ball of wool, I started a granny square. I wanted something that didn’t take much thinking, and as this was the first time I’d really picked up my hook since last summer, I wanted to see progress quickly.
And I did.
As it grew the colours by chance formed themselves into pretty even blocks of colour - I’d like to claim I planned this, but it was a fortuitous fluke.
My very loose plan was to make the square big enough so that when folded into an envelope-ish shape it would hold my laptop. As it grew, there was much trying it for size until it was done.
And just look how much wool from the previous project I had left. Clearly granny squares are less yarn hungry than my previous pattern, but thankfully the double thickness yarn gave the padding I wanted. I’ll use this cover when I pack my laptop into a weekend bag, so it doesn’t need to be as robust as if I were carrying it around everyday.
With a button sewn on - contrasting of course - it was done, and in super quick time. And I’ve one less Work-in-Progress (WIP) on the go too!