Mood blanket - I'm Gonna Giving Up

I started a mood blanket for 2022 with a base chain of 151 and I've honestly been loving it. To me, there is something so poetic about the mood blanket, crocheting a row every single day where the colour is dependent on my main mood that day. My mental health can, at times, leave me feeling so alone and cold. There is something powerful in then taking that and turning it into something to give me warmth and comfort. I also really loved being able to see the patterns in my mood.

Another big thing for me is taking that 15 minutes a day to unwind and crochet before I sleep. I am so guilty of staying on my phone until suddenly it's 3 am so doing the row a day really acted as a way of basically telling myself "After this, it's bedtime." It really gave me a place to unwind (pun intended) and reflect on my day.

So if I loved it so much... Why am I quitting halfway through the year? Welp, I have a confession, I have pretty much not worked on the blanket since May. The first week of June was hectic for me as I had an exam every day and then I ran out of the right colour and then school holidays started and I fell out of my routine and I just never really recovered. The thing about a project like this is that once you fall behind its so hard to get back into it. It's also hard to travel with the project because of all the colours needed at its size.

It's honestly disappointing to me because I really thought I could be part of the tiny minority that actually finished one of these things. It's honestly already big enough to be a decent size single blanket so my plan now is to finish it off here and then start a new one when school picks up again. Stay tuned for that! I'm thinking of making things easier by maybe doing something like squares that are easier to travel with.