Lazy Knitter Syndrome

Ay caramba! It's now midway through November, a little over a month until Christmas, and I haven't made significant progress toward getting my gifts done. Especially that damn blanket or Rob's vest. And don't get me started on the girls' dresses, which will now make their debut sometime next spring. Here I thought I was in a zone and getting everything done, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen. I may not even have enough yarn to get the blanket done, so I'm a little panicked right now.

Maybe it's inertia - I don't want to find out if I don't have enough yarn, only to know for certain that I don't, then I'll have to run up to Boulder to Shuttles and get some more Manos, if they have all the colors I need. With Niki's dress, she now may be too big to wear it...and I really don't want to start again.

I'm actually home sick today from my half-day at the school, but am I knitting like a crazy person?

Nope. I'm doing my freelance copywriting work and trying to get my self-marketing efforts off the ground. It would be nice to have some writing clients help fund my yarn addiction for a change :-)

I do knit, but I'm only getting little things done. Maybe if I'm up to it, I can get something accomplished this afternoon and evening, while watching Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddown, Jon Stewart and/or Stephen Colbert.

Panic (kinda sorta)

I'm still working mostly on Terry's (Rob's mom's) blanket, now into the second of three 5-foot panels. The work is actually going along fine, but I'm a little scared that Christmas looms in less than two months, and I feel that I should be further along. So I'm mildly panicked...but I still think I can get it done. It may take pulling an all-nighter on December 24th. Oh well, that's the price I pay.

Now that I'm returning to copywriting and travel writing - and also possibly adding photography in the mix - I don't have the time to obsess about knitting like I have for the past 23 months or so. That's probably a good thing, really :-)

One thing I realized is that I don't think I can project monomous for the long-term. It just isn't in me, because I get bored too easily. But I can no longer go off and cast-on 20 projects with abandon. Finding that happy medium and getting my WIPs done is an early resolution for 2009

Pics on Terry's blanket will be in the next post!

Want to get something done!

I don't think I have knitting doldrums now, but it's hard for me to feel gratified by what's on my needles. I guess that's what happens when you get into making an blanket that's actually really cool, but everything else falls by the wayside.

So here's a partial list of what still needs to get off the needles: Rob's vest, Jenna's linen dress, Niki's cotton dress, my fair isle mitts, Edna's scarf, Blair's scarf to match the hat she got for her birthday (which hasn't been cast on but needs to pretty soon here), my and Rob's socks (two different pairs, not a shared one), Patsy's mini-shawl. Eeek!

Luckily, I do not have to start Rob's niece's socks or his nephew's hat yet. My sister in law (their mom) said I could make them birthday presents for next year. Dodged a bullet there, Thank God.

Another thing: I haven't been on Ravelry for a while now...I think the novelty of it is wearing off. I still check it everyday to see if there's a topic that strikes my fancy, and every so often I do respond to something. But I guess other things are just kind of taking over, like my writing and wanting to get it going, once and for all. It's all a matter of priorities, right?