Substantial progress, sort of

I have spent the past two days working to put my crochet remnant rehab project to bed for a few weeks so that I can get started on designing and making some gifts I want to have done in time for Christmas, and while I made substantial progress — I finished all of the joining for the sixteen television test pattern crochet motifs I was working on:

Sixteen rehabbed television test strip crochet squares in need of finishing work
Sixteen rehabbed television test strip crochet squares in need of finishing work

Then wove in and trimmed all of the ends, and took this photo:

Sixteen rehabbed six-inch crochet squares
Sixteen rehabbed six-inch crochet squares

But that wasn’t where my crochet story ended.

In addition to the sixteen television test pattern motifs that I just finished, I am also working on rehabbing a collection of crochet remnants that I had found in a bin with a particularly extensive assortment of bits and pieces from my crochet past.

There were granny squares from an afghan I began and never finished, small crochet cookies leftover from my 2013 North Carolina State Fair project (aka Cookieghan 2.0), nine one-round granny squares that I made in September of 2015 for what ended up becoming my 2018 North Carolina State Fair project, as well as a few squares from the aptly named “Pixelghan,” and my much beloved yoga blanket:

An assortment of crochet remnants from my effort to dig deeper
An assortment of crochet remnants from my effort to dig deeper

And given the fact that the assortment is a wide variety of remnants from a wide variety of projects, and those different remnants require different treatments, so there is an element of reinventing the wheel as I move from remnants of one project to another and then another, but I am finally nearing the end with thirty of the thirty-six future five-inch squares completed:

Thirty-five inch rehab crochet squares and six crochet remnants
Thirty-five inch rehab crochet squares and six crochet remnants

As for tomorrow, when the sunrises on the new day, I will be there with my crochet hook in hand, ready to finish up the remaining six squares moving forward one stitch at a time so that I can then begin work on a new design or two.