Knit Crochet Blog Week Day Seven

Day Seven (Sunday 17th May): Your Time, Your Place. Where and how do you take time out to knit and/or crochet? Maybe you don’t take time out at all and instead have your needles twirling as you try to juggle a multitude of other tasks with no ‘spare’ time to think of. Maybe you enjoy nothing more than to crochet whilst winding down from a yoga session, chatting with some friends in a nearby café.

My little poll in the sidebar didn't quite work yesterday. Which is fine since that question was just a joke anyway. Thank you to everyone who checked out my survey monkey poll. Alrighty on to todays prompt. Generally I knit after work. I get myself settled down on my side of the couch, usually with a TV show going in the background and I craft to my hearts content until I have to go to bed. If I have tasks to do around the apartment I make sure they're done before I sit down because once I get all situated I don't tend to get back up again. I do make an attempt to keep what I'm working on organized and out of the way, but now with our smaller apartments my things have migrated and are taking over the side of the couch... and behind it actually. Its nice though to have what I need just an arms length away. I also have to stay on top of keeping it tidy because my side of the couch is right by the hallway back to the bedrooms, so if I don't keep it tidy it'll be a tripping hazard.

Its a mess, I know. I need to weave in ends on a few things and get them put away properly. I'm not sure how the pattern laying behind the couch got there, but I need to put that with the other pages and I need to clean out that green bag. There are several dishcloths and a hat buried in that one. It works though, so that's something. The cats have been leaving it alone, which is a huge plus.

Well, this week has been fun. I've enjoyed reading everyone else's responses to these prompts. Hopefully mine were somewhat interesting. I've found at least one new blog to follow, yea. Until later. Happy Crafting!
-Q

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