What Does One Do When Waking Up At 2:30 Am And Can't Go Back To Sleep?

It happened again!  I woke up at 2:30 AM and can't go back to sleep, so I checked all the wonderful work of my creative peers whom I'm following on Blogger.  I'm amazed at their work and creativity!  Where do they get all their creative energy and inspirations to finish their craft (crochet/knit) projects?  My creative energy is very sporadic and most of the times runs out before I can finish, my work.  How do you all stay inspired?

Recently, I started teaching a crochet class at a Senior Center nearby and this helps me some to focus on crochet.  Still I feel I'm lacking focus, motivation and energy to finish projects quickly.  After this post if I can't go back to sleep, I'll just get up and  do crochet.

I recently learned how to connect granny squares continuously without breaking the yarn until all the squares are all connected together.  This is a very cool technique because it saves one lots of time since there are not very many tails to hide.  I give credit to these two web sites where I learned the technique:
Please click here and here.

Below, are photos of my practice squares.  This crochet scheme is good for using leftover yarn since the middle squares are small and does not use a whole lot of yarn.

Snow Flower Shawl/Neck Warmer--Finished

I worked on hiding the yarn tails while watching the Presidential Inaugural Ceremony of President Trump.  This sort of make this shawl memorable to me.  I need to find a nice decorative buttons to add to the overall look of this shawl.  Photos below show the finished shawl with no yarn tails dangling everywhere.

Right Side

Wrong Side

Front

Back

Snow Flower Shawl/Neck Warmer-- Hiding Yarn Tails

The fun part is over.  It is time to clean up and in crochet this means hiding yarn tails.  More information about hiding yarn tails here.

The edging is completed.  The photo above shows the right side of the shawl while the photo below shows the wrong side and all the yarn tails dangling out.  These yarn tails need to be hidden.  Please click the link given above explaining how to hide yarn tails.

Snow Flower Shawl/Neck Warmer--Flower edging added

I made half flower motifs edging and attach them to the shawl.

Next, I will have to reinforce the edges of the flower edging to give them finish and neat appearance and to prevent curling.  I still have to finish the neckline and hide yarn tails.