A little sorting can be a dangerous thing

I probably should have crocheted myself some blinders yesterday so that when the sun rose on this new day, I would have at least had a tool in my tool kit to help me stay focused on the projects at hand, but I made the mistake of looking into one of the many bins from my crochet empire that still needs to be sorted through.

I thought it would only take a moment, that I would be able to make one decision and then another and then another, and soon I would have an empty bin.

But that’s not what happened.

Shortly after I began my efforts I found this long forgotten crochet project:

A long forgotten crochet  project
A long forgotten crochet project

I had been using two strands of a mercerized cotton to crochet a hat — the pattern long since lost to history. I don’t know if I ran out of the yarn, or if I just got sidetracked, but either way, I decided that the most sensible course of action was to frog the whole thing.

So I did.

The same project frogged and ready for a new adventure
The same project frogged and ready for a new adventure

With the recently unearthed project frogged and ready to be transformed, I saw that what had been underneath the never finished project was a tin. I knew that if I had seen fit to move it, there must have been something there of value, and there was.

Sort of.

When I got the lid off, I found that the tin was housing a substantial collection of yarn scraps:

A tin of yarn scraps
A tin of yarn scraps

and once I started sorting through them, I found it was a mix of both long and short yarn scraps, a fact which slowed down my work a bit as I tied them end to end, but after thirty minutes of work, I had made some progress:

The same tin of yarn scraps after 30 minutes of tying yarn scraps end to end
The same tin of yarn scraps after 30 minutes of tying yarn scraps end to end

Which brought me back to the project I had frogged. It seemed to me that the yarn in question would be perfect for a crochet market bag. It also seemed to me that I had saved a crochet market bag pattern to my queue at Ravelry, and when I checked, I found the Frankston market bag was #393 in my queue.

Using a 4.5 mm hook and the pattern provided (which has excellent photos to accompany the written pattern), I got to work, and while I didn’t make a lot of progress, I did make some:

A future Frankston crochet market bag
A future Frankston crochet market bag

I really did mean to get something done today, but while I didn’t finish a project or even finish going through the bin, at least I managed to move forward a bit — one stitch at a time.