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November 18, 2008

Startitis

I have startitis.

Stay well away for I think it may be catching.

I have so many unfinished projects at the moment, and I cannot for the life of me work out why I am therefore inextricably drawn to starting even more projects. Except that with some of them I HAVE to start them. I promised a friend some bootees for his newborn, I volunteered to knit a hat as a prize in the Ravelry Books and More Swap, and of course I had to knit loads of pasties for the recent workshop in Brighton. Which put my current WIPs right on hold.

I think I have assuaged the pastie demon. Which is good. But after knitting so many quick things, my urge to start and finish something is strong. And bootees are fast - well fastish, but rather fiddly. I have got to the finishing stage, and I just can't motivate myself to finish them. Perhaps I shall email my friend and find out where he wants them sending to as a prompt to myself to get them all finished off.

I have the hat with me. It is Fourth Grade from the new Twist Collective. A free pattern that is beretish, and so appeals to my beret obsession, and it is knitted using entrelac, a technique I have never tried. Mostly because I think entrelac garments look HID-EE-YUS. However a hat I can cope with. Besides its not for me, and it means I can conquer another technique as well as provide a prize in a timely fashion. And entrelac is easy, so I can knit the hat at Miss Spiritual Tramps knitting Circle. See - its all about process with me.

I know that I am definitely a process knitter rather than a product knitter. Having as many WIPs as I do might drive a product knitter round the bend, and for anyone with good project management and finishing skills I am a nightmare. But I like starting new things. I can't help it. I get bored easily. The only way I can ever get to the end of things like my linen yoga blankie, is to intersperse it with quick little fixes.

Socks - two pairs on the needles at the moment - one an overdue 40th birthday pressie. With these I am riven with guilt. Once the hat is out of the way and the bootees are in the post these are my number one priority. Except that I chose quite a complicated pattern - Baroque from Knitty. So I can only knit them at home when I can concentrate. Which means they are taking a while. And I wasn't happy with them so I frogged half a sock and started again from scratch.

So my plain black socks travel with me. But they are a pain the the proverbial to knit in anything but bright daylight. They are BLACK for god's sake! Whatever possessed me to start fine (and I mean FINE) black cotton socks (2.25mm needles but look MUCH finer) right as the clocks give me even more darkness each day to contend with? So as you might guess progress on them is s l o w.

The Apres Surf Hoodie will be lovely and I cannot WAIT to get some other little bits and pieces of 'must do' knitting out of the way so I can do more of it.

And the linen yoga blankie just goes on, and on and on.

There are a load more WIPs I haven't even put on to Ravelry yet. Please don't say Shetland Tea Shawl to me......

Posted by glittrgirl at November 18, 2008 2:05 PM

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