Crafting thus far

For the crafting part of this course I decided to return to crocheting. I picked it up several years ago, when I worked at WalMart, to participate in a store quilting project. It was easy enough to pick up plus the effort was going to help people. For class I opted to make a scarf, one) because it is a pretty basic item and 2) because I know it will be put to use once I am done (unlike coasters or hot pads.)
Honestly, this was a bit ambitious. As of this moment, I’ve put in maybe two hours and I only have about eight inches of a scarf, and I want a long one, about six feet not including fringe. I enjoy this craft because it is simple, I’ve been able to work on it during the car ride to and from campus (the boyfriend is driving) or while I’m “watching” television. At the same time it does take some concentration, I have snagged yarn, missed loops, starting to tightly or to loosely, though most of the eight inches are pretty even the scarf did start out a bit narrower than it has become.
I haven’t learned any new more than the two loops or knots that I picked up when I first started but I am looking forward to learning how to seem things together once I get further with this. This is taking a lot of patience, and with what precious little time I have between two jobs and three classes, that is effort. It will be worth it though for several reasons: I’ll get better, I’ll have a quality product once I am finished, and it will be an assignment I’m proud to get graded on, versus something that I just turn in to get it over with.
I can’t say there is to much to think about while I am doing this, when I’m not counting stitches or fixing snags, I’m usually going over in my head what else needs to get done with the time I have, or I’m listening to the television or the boyfriend tell me about his day. It is rather calming, much better than mediating.