Lettuce Crochet!

The crocheting has become obsessive.  The good news? It is relatively quick which means I actually can finish a project before I get bored.  There have been loads of hats, booties animals and little booties being made.  Luckily, the last four months have been chock-full of friends and families having babies so everything is finding a good home.
I did feel like I was near getting in a rut so I decided to try something new.  A market bag!

About 5 dc in, I suspected I would never use it, but thought it was still cute. About  6 rows in (of about 35) I knew I was going to go bonkers with the repetition, but I also knew I would be done that night and could suffer through.

The yarn is Sugar 'n Cream in the Lime Stripes colorway.  I am a sucker for this yarn--it is inexpensive and I can buy it locally.  This is my first time using the stripes--admittedly, it is more appropriate for a more "solid" project like a scarf--and I think that next time I will look for one that uses completely different colors so it doesn't seen like plain-old variegated  yarn.  But I was pretty excited  that each color was equal to one round.  Good planning on my part (as if)!  Before I stretched it a bit, it was all curly and looked like a pile of lettuce.

In case you are curious, I started with this pattern.  But then when I got to round 6 I did not read carefully and just repeated round 5 about 18 times or so, after which I realized my mistake and just decided to wing it from there!

Is this really happening? Is this real life?

I'm trying this again.  The whole blog thing.  But I'm thinking it might just work.  I've got some goals and plans (different than the usual bees in my bonnet) for the next year so I want to document it. Sorry Sweetie, those goals and plans don't include cleaning, decluttering or other necessary household tasks.
So first, a little structure.  I hope to find some type of "Friday Five" that isn't completely lame and maybe to the Ten on Ten thing provided either my camera or phone starts cooperating.  Or I get a new camera. Did I jus say that??  That would at least mean 5 posts a month.  Not too shabby.
So I'm saying it out loud for all to read: I will blog.  I will.  I will.  I will.  Even if it just means linking to amazing things I bump into on the interwebs, I will blog.  And maybe after six months or so of really blogging I will tell someone about it.