Monday, February 6, 2012

Does This Happen To You?

So, I've been diligently knitting on a towel for a couple of weeks now and it is going soooo  s   l   o  w.  Argh!  Why is that?  I so want to finish it, but it just doesn't seem to be moving?  I feel like I'm going to be eternally stuck at 12.5 inches on this thing.  At first, I was so excited.  I was learning something new and it's such a pretty pattern.  My first lament was "Am I was ever going to be able to memorize the stitch pattern?" (Answer - No) Now I'm just trying to finish it.

Well, I finally got disgusted with it this past weekend.  We were sitting in yet another wrestling tournament (Number One Son came in fourth!!) and I was still knitting this darn towel.  I was so bored - *yawn* This particular tournament was fairly well organized (SHOCKER!) and we were done at a reasonable time.  I believe we were home by around 4:00 pm....Total shocker. And I pulled out the towel and I know I looked at it with total dread - insert heavy sigh here. That's when I decided I needed a respite from it. Don't worry, I'll finish it because it's important to me, but I just won't finish it right now.

So what did I do, you ask?  (This is so bad)  I started something else. I didn't pick up my incarceration socks and complete them....or any other item that I should be completing -  like hemming a friend's curtains that I've had for a month.  Noooooo.....I went through my stash and found a pretty gray yarn and decided to start a sweater...the Lady Kina...you know, because I have nothing better to do.

Why did I do this?!?!  Has this ever happened to you? Any great insight would be greatly appreciated because I'm feeling a little sheepish...kind of like when you're eating a cookie and you haven't finished yet and you catch yourself reaching for another....Oh.  You don't do that?  Never mind.

3 comments:

  1. When I first learned to knit [ two years ago this coming May] I only had one project on the needles at all times and wondered why anyone would want more....now I know! I have three things going right now, a sweater, a hat and a sock. I am about to finish the hat only because I really want to cast on the cutest beret! I really think it just has something to do with knitting that makes us want to keep casting on. Have you ever read the Yarn Harlot? She calls it Startitis!

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  2. Well, I don't knit, but I can certainly relate as I have projects in different stages of completion all over the place!

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  3. no, no. I am the queen of unfinished knitting projects because I get board with the pattern, the yarn, the color, whatever. It's a horrible disease, isn't it?

    ...but on the positive side, it's a lovely break. :)

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