It's that crazy time of year when I want to drop everything that I am working on and start a new project. I have a few old projects that seem to have just been dragging their feet and not getting finished, mostly because of pattern designing and the making of gifts which have kept me from being able to knit on the old projects. Call me selfish, but I am desperately wanting to make or finish something for myself for a change. I don't think I've knit for me since maybe June? (Sigh.)
I started this boot cuff in Swish Worsted (Lava Heather), then ripped it totally back because, well, a honeycomb cable wasn't what I wanted after all, and have knit back to about half-way through the project.
I am, however, wondering why in the world I didn't cast on to knit these 2-at-a-time because now I am going to have to make another one and we all know about THAT syndrome! I had planned to knit these in June and to make a pair of fingerless Urbanista gloves to round out the set. Sadly, this is not what I want to be knitting, as it turns out.
But, ahem. There's another call for pattern submissions for fall/winter sweaters that just hit my inbox. So, Friday I sent the kids off to school and sat down at the computer with an idea, did a little swatch, and by 10:30 am I had written a complete cable-y drop-shoulder sweater pattern in 5 sizes. I picked out the yarn and ordered it. This will be one of those can't-show-you projects. I've too many of those going on around here already, and that's probably what is causing my start-itis. I know what I want to knit for myself: a shawl, 4 pair of socks, and some new Sportswoman gloves. I also happen to have all the yarn I need for these projects. Something tells me, though, that I will be starting another test-knit just as I am wrapping up another gift project and my just-for-me agenda will get set aside. Plus, my children have begun giving me their Christmas "orders", which include Sportsman gloves, socks, and several beanies.
Christmas is in 9 weeks. Yep. Definitely not getting to my own personal knitting agenda until January. Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.
I started this boot cuff in Swish Worsted (Lava Heather), then ripped it totally back because, well, a honeycomb cable wasn't what I wanted after all, and have knit back to about half-way through the project.
I am, however, wondering why in the world I didn't cast on to knit these 2-at-a-time because now I am going to have to make another one and we all know about THAT syndrome! I had planned to knit these in June and to make a pair of fingerless Urbanista gloves to round out the set. Sadly, this is not what I want to be knitting, as it turns out.
But, ahem. There's another call for pattern submissions for fall/winter sweaters that just hit my inbox. So, Friday I sent the kids off to school and sat down at the computer with an idea, did a little swatch, and by 10:30 am I had written a complete cable-y drop-shoulder sweater pattern in 5 sizes. I picked out the yarn and ordered it. This will be one of those can't-show-you projects. I've too many of those going on around here already, and that's probably what is causing my start-itis. I know what I want to knit for myself: a shawl, 4 pair of socks, and some new Sportswoman gloves. I also happen to have all the yarn I need for these projects. Something tells me, though, that I will be starting another test-knit just as I am wrapping up another gift project and my just-for-me agenda will get set aside. Plus, my children have begun giving me their Christmas "orders", which include Sportsman gloves, socks, and several beanies.
Christmas is in 9 weeks. Yep. Definitely not getting to my own personal knitting agenda until January. Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.
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