4KCBWDAY3 Crochet Blog Week Day 3: Infographics, Crochet Time, and Life Balance

Day Three (Wednesday April 24th): Infographic
"There are many ways of conveying information on a blog; text and images are the two most widely used. Many infographics combine both these elements to provide a visual way of presenting text information. Make your own infogaphic."

Day Three of 4K Crochet Blog Week is all about infographics and what they tell us about how we live and create.

Infographics are a fun way to blend visuals and information. For this post, I created a simple pie chart that shows how I spend my free time. Free time for me isn’t always uninterrupted time. Most of it comes in the afternoon while my boys are napping, and sometimes in the evening after dinner when the house is quiet and the dishes are done.

Looking at my chart, you can see that most of my time this year has been spent with crochet. That makes sense since I picked up a hook for the first tim,e and it has rarely been far from me since. Crochet fills the quiet spaces of my day, the moments waiting on meals to finish, waiting in the pickup line at school, and the slow evenings after bedtime.

Last year, my pie chart looked very different. I used to spend most of my time reading. That was a season when I joined a new church and felt a deep pull to study the Bible more than ever before. I also love reading for pleasure, and with a Kindle in hand, I would devour free books and finish them within days.

Life changes as seasons come and go. When my oldest was born in 201,1 he weighed ten pounds and was over twenty inches long. He arrived two weeks early and was such a big baby that I wasn’t sick at all during pregnancy. His easy personality made those early years filled with reading and quiet moments together. That all shifted when our second son came along. His first year was full of morning sickness and snuggles and so much less uninterrupted time.

As children grow, so do our lives and routines. I still treasure quiet time, but now it looks different. I find myself balancing family, laundry, meals, and crocheting. Many of those stitches happen during the small spaces between responsibilities, and that is okay. The rhythm of life changes, but the joy of creating and remembering moments through yarn stays with me.