Knit Coaster with Charms

Greetings!

My husband (John) has been calling me a traitor.  He tells me that I'm cheating on my first love and he doesn't understand what's happened.  Have I thrown in the towel? Given up? Set aside my crochet hook forever?

Of course not!

The truth is that I suffer from crafting ADD.  I love to start new projects, but before too long I get bored and want to move on to something else.  Instead of seeing this as a bad thing I like to consider it an opportunity to feed my desire to learn.

So while it may be true that I've been spending more time with my needles, it's only a matter of time I'm sure and I'll be digging out my crochet WIPs.

Unfortunately, the down side of this is unless a project is small and relatively quick it takes me A VERY LONG TIME (years?) to finish. 

Additional fuel for my short attention span is my love of books.  Pattern books to be specific.  Not only do I receive terrific titles in the mail for review, but working at the library I can not resist browsing the catalog and borrowing anything - make that everything - that strikes my fancy! That's where I came across this quick and interesting project. In One-Skein Wonders; 101 Yarn-Shop Favorites I found Knitted Coasters with Charms.  I thought that it would be a great way to combine John's beading with my knitting.

I was wondering how the 68 stitches that I cast on to straight needles were going to morph into a square.  It turns out that this is a really cool technique that those of you who have been knitting for a while probably are familiar with.  It's surprisingly simple really.  Evenly space decreases create triangles and by the time you've decreased down to a small number of stitches you just thread the tail through the stitches making a circle that actually becomes the center of your square.  The magic of geometry!

Pretty nifty right?  I'll admit that I'm much more taken with the technique than I am with the over all finished project.  The beads look pretty, but given the clumsy tendencies of our family I can see a full cup getting set down on the edge and the whole thing toppling over.  Not so pretty after all!

This is just a peek at one of the many projects that's been keeping me busy.  I've been doing a whole lot of crafting, and not very much blogging.  Time to get back in swing!  I used to wonder what I was going to write about, not any more! I've got plenty of finished projects, works in progress plus don't forget the books to review and giveaway.  I think you're going to be seeing a lot of me!

Thanks so much for stopping by and spending a bit of your day with me.
Until next time friends,
Be Blessed and Stitch & Read with Love!