crocheted stuff

a friend of mine is having a baby soon. i realized the other day, after i was already in the store, that instead of gasping to myself for the past several weeks about how i haven't gone shopping to get her something yet, i should have just been making her something all along. so i bought something in case making something failed, and then went home to make something!

i originally thought booties and a hat. but then i thought, no those are too small. i have more time than that, i could make something bigger. a small blanket would be doable. so i started this blanket. i think i made it too long. then i realized that if i worked at the same rate for the amount of days i have left, it would only be about half finished. then i realized i probably didn't have enough yarn to actually finish it without the proportions looking weird. so i have a failed blanket.
but if i go back to the yarn shop where i got this yarn before, they will probably have more, and i could still finish it and give it to someone. there are other people having babies too. or it can just be a late gift.

so, i decided it must be time to make booties. they took less than 3 hours to make, after finding an easy pattern online. yay!
what i should have done to begin with... i could make a hat too, but i think i will actually try to finish the blanket.

i realized through this blanket story that i work better NOT under pressure. i like to know i can finish something and still have extra time. the blanket was stressing me out because it was like a small version of my thesis. it needs to be finished! it wasn't possible to finish it by when it was supposed to be finished!! so do i keep working as quickly as possible and hope that i am wrong? or give myself an extension and stop pressuring myself about it? i forgot if i'm talking about the blanket or the thesis... anyway, i will continue the blanket as i feel like it and still might very well be able to finish it and give it to the person i intended it for. or if it takes much longer than expected, it can be for the next person having a baby. as for the thesis, i have an extension on the original deadline i was given for a first complete draft, but keep wishing it could just be DONE. it's not going badly. i just wish it was going much more quickly...