I’m really enjoying my Jelly Roll blanket. Sometimes your brain just needs something simple to work on. I’m not going to sweat the simple too much though. It’s been fun choosing the colors for each stripe. I debated random but know myself well enough that I wouldn’t be able to handle true random. So I’m choosing each color as I go. I’m a little nervous of what will happen when I start to get low on yarn and picking the colors will be more limited but I’ll deal with that when I get there.

I also took the time to frog my Side by Side sweater. When I first decided to frog it I was worried I’d feel bad or sad but the action of unraveling was rather freeing. I want to put forward the commentary that sometimes you just have to admit things aren’t working and cut your losses and move forward with what you have leftover. But things are going well right now and that feels like to depressing a sentiment to me. I’m enjoying focusing on looking forward right now.

It was a bit of a challenge to unravel because I like to weave in my ends as I go and it caused some interesting tangles but I got most of the yarn back. Which is good because I have plans for it. My obsession with the Jelly Roll blanket won’t last forever and I want to be ready to cast on something new when it’s time. I am going to stubbornly going to stick to using this batch of yarn for a sweater. I am determined.