Four hundred and ninety-five crochet squares done, 505 crochet squares to go

When I began my crochet rehab journey late last December, I did not know that it would carry me through all of 2018. At the time, I had no idea how many crochet squares I would make, I had no idea that the crochet remnants I had amassed were nearly limitless,  I did not foresee setting myself a goal of 1000 total squares, but four hundred and ninety-five squares later, I am on the cusp of reaching the halfway mark.

So this weekend, with that in mind, I had a two-pronged approach to my crochet, alternately working on the nine remnants I had identified for crochet rehab:

The same nine crochet remnants after the first round of crochet rehab
The same nine crochet remnants after the first round of crochet rehab

and crocheting the thirty-two pieces needed to complete the sixteen television test strip crochet squares I am working on.

As the sun set on the weekend, I was eight crochet pieces shy of my goal, but I did have twenty-four of them ready to go:

Twenty-four of the thirty-two pieces needed to finish the television test strip crochet squares
Twenty-four of the thirty-two pieces needed to finish the television test strip crochet squares

When I was not crocheting the two row single crochet strips I need for the striped squares, I focused my attention on the recently identified nine patch, getting a second round of rehab completed with all of the resulting ends woven in and trimmed:

The nine crochet remnants after a second round of crochet rehab
The nine crochet remnants after a second round of crochet rehab

Even after finishing the second round of rehab, there were still two squares that needed at least another round, so with my hook in hand and stash at my side, I continued and sometime in the late afternoon, I finished work on all nine squares:

Nine rehabbed crochet squares ready for adventure
Nine rehabbed crochet squares ready for adventure

bring my total number of squares rehabbed to four hundred and ninety-five.

I am no where near working my way through all of my crochet remnants that collected over the first twenty-years I crocheted, and it is probably unreasonable to think that it is possible to undo in one year what took twenty to do, but I have reduced the number of possible tangles by a factor of a lot, and I will continue working with these remnants transforming them from purposelessness to purposefulness, one stitch at a time.