Still on Track!

Classes start again and I am in the middle of a living space reorganization, but I have doing well on my knitting resolutions!

Still making progress in the Wisp, though I have slowed. I'm on the 12th repeat, after being distracted by Clapotis and life for about a week. I'm hoping to finish the Wisp by the end of the week. I maybe actually do it to! Wouldn't that be a miracle? I did hit a snag. I broke yet another pair of circs. I don't know how I do it, it must be a talent. But the point is I am now knitting Wisp with nothing but the two little points. I'm too cheap to buy a new set of needles so I have to make due.

On the Clapotis front I am still making progress. I'm on the 4th repeat of the third section. I must say, those dropped stitches are so much damn fun. I love them! I almost wish there were more, but then there would be no knitting, just dropped stitches and that's not very practical.

Back to the resolution track, I am still doing well! I haven't bought any new yarn, not counting the few balls of sock yarn, since last year. (Shut up, everyone knows sock yarn doesn't count) I even went through mt knitting books, bookmarked patterns on line and stash on Ravelry and earmarked each yarn for a particular pattern or project. It seems less daunting now. Not counting the socks, I have about 4-6 months of knitting ahead of it. But we all know I'll be distracted by socks, so I'm probably set until next fall.

A new cycle begins

Happy 2008! I took a break for the holiday, but here I am with a new revelation. Well, not so much new, as a new found willing to confess.

I am a serial starter.

I have this bad habit of starting projects with gusto, knitting like mad for the first 1/4 to 1/2 of the project, getting bored and moving on to something else which also is unlikely to get completed in a timely fashion. Unless the project can be completed in less than a weekend or is destined for someone else, I completely incapable of finishing a full project.

I always knew I was bad at finish but dude! Ravlery revels all! I was looking at my projects list and wow, that was a lot wip's for one knitter to have started in only a few months. There's the vintage-y long gloves (only one is finished), fetching (one cuff finished), the giant brown scarf (only 10" long), Tropicana socks (stalled at the first heel), the plain ol' socks (4" of the first cuff), Wisp (half done and in less than a week! And, I am still interested. I might finish this is a timely fashion), the stash-busting cropped cardigan ( 2" of the back) and the latest edition, a Clapotis so I can be just like every other knitter on the planet. That's a grand total of 8 new projects started in the past 3 months and none of them are close to being done, and half of which are not being actively knit on, AKA hibernating. Yeah, I'm bad.

Yeah, so new resolution, finish projects before starting a new one and no more than 5 wip's at a time. Seems reasonable right?

Pfft, who am I kidding.