on finishing things i begin

i have this little problem. i have a hard time finishing things. call it boredom, call it some form of attention deficit disorder, call it too many ideas that never happen. it happens a lot. it is nothing new, it has happened my entire life. i think i was the only kid i knew who actually quit 7 different sports as a child. that's right. 7. and not just give it a go and then you never really get into doing it. i am talking a usual mid-season quit of an organized team sport.

nowadays this problem mostly rears its ugly head in my handcrafted endeavors. this is evidenced by the vast amount of hibernating projects on my ravelry project page. have i mentioned that there are at least 4 or 5 other projects lying around that aren't even up there yet? no? odd. the usual culprit of ennui is that there is some sort of major blunder that stops me in my tracks like running out of yarn, something clearly is not going to be the correct size or the classic one sock syndrome. let's just say that recently i have been cursed by the knitting gods. i'm not even going to get into my sewing misadventures right now, that will have to wait for another post.

so i am moving cross-country at the end of this month and i am trying to get organized and clear some of these projects out of their state of incompleteness and actually get some finished objects to be proud of. hopefully this will get me blogging again (yet another victim). here's the progress i have done so far over this past week.


a market bag i quit on in may because i ran out of yarn [ravelry]
rutabaga, knit scene spring 2007
2 skeins blue sky alpacas organic cotton in a yummy grass green color



i also cast off for a very special shawl which has actually gone without a hitch. when i received the june 2008 winter mailing of sundara's season club i immediately dropped my other projects and cast on for a stole for my sister. it just needs blocking now, but i think i will do that after the move. i conveniently noticed is something blue while i was finishing it. [ravelry]
japanese feather stole, knitspot.com
sundara silk lace, granite falls colorway, seasons club june 2008 winter mailing



i also finished a second sock! i just did the tops to anna bell's giotto pattern because i wasnt such a fan of the main stitch pattern. the color is very difficult to capture but is a very yummy purpley-pink. the name says it all. they will be very comfy wear-around-the-house socks. [ravelry]
giotto, anna bell
mama blue bfl sock yarn, preserves


and now for the project i am currently working on, bottoms up by alice bell. (any relation to anna? probably not.)

i am loving this pattern and loving the louet euroflax so much that i have already bought more for my next project. i hope to be done with this project by the end of the week if all goes well! [ravelry]