My First Exchange

I just signed up for my first ever crochet/knit exchange from The Gathering Room (yahoo group). I had signed up for the scarf exchange first but then I saw they had a hat exchange so I asked to be let out of the scarf exchange and signed up for the hat one. I'm not that fast of a crocheter and I didn't think I could get both done by the time I needed to. I mean, I'm still working on a stupid placemat from last month. It might also be because I don't sit still long enough to keep continually working on a project.....

Anyway, I got my partner today and I'm excited. I actually got into crochet because I wanted a hat and a scarf. We'll I've made myself a scarf already and am working on another one and I have yet to make myself a hat. I've made 2 hats but one was too big and one was too small. So I'll just have someone make one for me. She didn't give me a size so I could just give her the the bigger one. It fits my mom just fine but its in red and green (multicolored yarn) and my partner's colors were blue and purple. I do have a bright purple and 3 different shades of blue so I wonder how they'd look together. I need to figure out a pattern first. I have 3 I'm thinking on plus another one that is in the plastic tube with the rest of the books.

None of the books will fit in my bookshelf so I'm stuck with them being in the plastic tube with all the scrap yarn. I'd really love a whole craft room so I could organize all my yarn and stuff like I want but I live in a 2 bed apt and the other room is already the computer room/cat's bathroom. There is no room in here with 2 desks. His litterbox is in the closet so its out of the way but I don't want my yarn where he can get to it. Oh, my cat's name is Sam...well the one that is with me at least. I have another one named DD but she is with my mom back home.

I started this post to see how long it'd take me to get this project done. I'll start on the pattern tomorrow once I find out what pattern I want. Ok, so I guess I should go and pack...gotta go home tomorrow to drive my grandfather to the dentist who is over 50 miles away and then on Friday I get to drive him to the hearing aid place in a town that is over 76 miles away. I live 96 miles away from home and I do all the driving when I'm home. Thankfully I'm the only one in the family who is a good driver.