Just keep doing what you’re doing. Knitting!
February 6th, 2006 by Donna
It’s only February, and already I have crossed two knitting New Year’s Resolutions off my list My apologies to those of you who read via RSS or Bloglines: I suspected that the actual “crossing off” of said resolutions might cause my feed to update prematurely, but completist that I am, I could not resist. This update is “for reals,” as the kids say. The first (finishing a sweater) was a done deal when the list was written, so it gives me great pleasure to say that I have also knocked off the hardest, boringest, scariest resolution: Go through my odds-and-ends bag and reorganize my stash. Result? I felt very virtuous, appreciating what I had rather than contemplating all the yarn that could be mine, but was not yet in my possession. Then I bought something.
(By the way, that’s my mom’s first sock up there, Fortissima Socka Colori 9069 - I haven’t cast off in the verrry unlikely event the sock doesn’t fit - those last stitches on the left are on safety pins.)
If you’re going to buy only one sock book this year…who am I kidding? No one stops with just one sock book. In honor of Sockapaloooza, I added Knitting Vintage Socks to my library; I’m also reading Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch - both are tremendously inspirational while I consider what to make for my sock pal. Or myself; I’m ready to cast on about nine new pairs of socks, including those crazy Jaywalkers everyone’s been up to.
And that’s just what I’m doing - considering. Others will tackle mondo marathon projects for the Knitting Olympics, but in the spirit of Homer Simpson, I’ll keep doing what I’m doing until it pays off - I have two pairs of socks on the needles and I’d love to almost finish one or both by February 26 (in the spirit of the Homer Simpson Olympic knitalong, I wouldn’t dream of actually finishing something until after the Olympic torch goes out). Of course, I plan on enjoying the process as much as the finished objects, if there are any. And if this second sock is any indication, there will be.
Oooooh… I already have some 9069 in my future - it was one of the first sock yarns I bought and I still haven’t knit them. I wondered how the colors would come out. Yours look great! Now I can’t wait to knit mine!
The torch has been lit
And of course we will knit
But only when it
Doesn’t send us into a snit.
Raising a glass to all of us, in and out of the Knitting Olympics. We’re all champions….YEAH!!!!