From time to time, we have a Saturday in, to craft. Well, CaDiva and HRH craft, I put on The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for The Mom and pulled out an afghan I have been working on for several years. That is the way of it, you see. I have actually counted out and it takes, on average, about 50 hours for me to finish an afghan. I just tend to spread it out over three to five years.
On the other hand, HRH and CaDiva do all sorts of crafty projects. I have seen them make candy, Christmas Ornaments, and now candles. Note to the house photographer, when your subjects are forming bees' wax tapers, time your photos carefully. You see they carefully wrap wax around a wick to begin the candle. Then they they roll the wax around and around, shaping and forming it with their warmed hands. Just think about it... now you get it.
The Mom. We ended the day with Chinese delivered. It was a lovely Saturday except for one thing.
I was sitting beside CaDiva and HRH as I counted out five chains to form a circle into which I did single crochets and chain seven loops eight times. The third round is double crochets into each double crochet for seven times until I get to a chain two space where I do two double crochets a treble crochet and two more double crochets before I start the seven again.
While I'm quietly doing this I have a running normal dialogue with the candle-makers and The Mom. Until the CRAFTY ONES decide to start counting and discussing the numbers of sheets and candles while I'm trying to complete a pattern.
In my head, I'm counting one, two, three "I think there are 18 in the box" nineteen, twenty...Wait, wait, that's wrong. Ok, start again, one, two, three "Well if we had 20 sheets and they were two each" three, four - wait, no that's not right. One, two, three, four "See there was a girl about 10 and seven other kids" six, seven, eight... WHAT...
I think I might have caught on a bit as to why it takes me five years to finish an afghan. Six, seven, eight , DANG IT!
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