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Future me here. I've written up and scheduled too many posts again, so I'll be double-posting for a few days to keep from getting too far ahead.

For November I have this project I must finish, a blanket in the Ocean Tranquility pattern that I'm making as a holiday gift for a friend. I've done five new rows on it, so I'm roughly a third way finished. I'm planning to do as many rows as I can each day in order to finish it in time for gifting at Christmas.

While I'm working on that I'm going to crochet some small projects, like a dragon's egg dice bag out of Premier Fruits, a new-to me yarn, in the colorway Grape. This is a 93% acrylic 7% PBT* #1 superfine yarn that is basically identical to their Farmstand line.

I needed a new dice bag because I gave away one that I made for Halloween, and one of my dice sets needed a new home. This is a fun pattern and the yarn performed beautifully.

The finished dice bag, which took about half the skein to make. Great project to kick off November.

*I identified PBT in an earlier post on the blog as Nylon, but I recently found out that it's actually not -- more of a stretchy polyester. My apologies for the error.

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