I've poured all my free time and energy into blanket squares and I've finished numbers 10 and 11 and started #12 since the last post. I am starting to feel the fun of making these squares now that I've made this blanket the main event instead of just an in-between project for those days when I was too tired to work on a more complicated project. I hate to say it, because I like to think that I am a "process" knitter, but now that the end is in sight, it is getting easier and easier to set aside the time to work on these (you know, when I should be vacuuming, or doing the dishes, or hanging out laundry...).

I'll be away for a while since I'm headed out tomorrow on a 9-day road trip and camping excursion around the Japanese island of Shikoku. I was a Girl Scout for about 10 years but I have never gone on an actual camping trip, since platform tents with cots and wooden floors don't seem like quite the same thing. I was always more interested in the arts and crafts badges than wilderness survival. Does that surprise you? Fingers crossed that I don't have any frightening encounters with animals of any size.

I don't plan on driving too much so that means heaps of time for knitting on my spring break. I'll definitely be working on two projects, and if there's room in the car, I'll bring the blanket squares, too. (The one thing I have retained from scouting is the Boy Scouts' motto--"Be prepared!").