I haven't been knitting at all lately. I have seven projects on the needles and I don't want to work on any of them.
The root cause, I think, is this hideous balaclava that I agreed to make for my 13yo. The pattern is a pain, my row gauge is off (and row gauge matters, which always vexes me), the seaming is going to be a drag, and I am really just mentally done with it. Also, I feel guilty that I didn't get it finished before spring, which perversely makes me less willing to work on it. Ugh.
I am tackling my first double-knitting project as well. It's pretty and fun but it's also s-l-o-w. I've never before held two colors with the same hand and they just won't stop tangling.
There's a lace project that's going to be pretty, I think, but it requires concentration.
I have about ten minutes' worth of work to do to finish my felted French press cozy, but I've been stalled at that point since early January.
Plus I have three pairs of socks on the needles: one for my mom (the least intuitive pattern I have ever attempted, and although it might be heresy I am not loving the Madelinetosh sock yarn), one for my pal Amanda that was ticking along fine until I was ambushed by ugly gussets, and one that was intended to be my fun brainless project until I discovered that the green and purple and blue yarn hurts my eyes. Can't have a fun project if you hate the yarn, right?
I've been wanting to cast on a sweater with some yarn I bought on deep discount, but I feel I ought to finish that rassafrassin' balaclava first. And I don't want to pick up the balaclava, which means that finishing it will require me to develop telekinetic knitting skills.
Last night I finally picked up the purple socks and smacked the gussets around so that they are 80% less ugly. I'll take it. Six rows up the leg of the first sock, she said with a sigh.
Probably the solution to my knitting doldrums is not to buy more yarn, huh?
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