August 28, 2003

Finishing. Oh yes. Just like that.

Looks like someone could use a little blocking.

The last days of August are all about the unfinished projects. Namely, my husband's cotton raglan sweater. A few days ago I cast on stitches to do the front piece and before I knew it, I was binding off for the neckline. Worsted cotton on addi circs, how I love thee.

I'm also busy sewing swatches together. Here are a couple of sneak peeks for you. And why lie? I could just scream from the tediousness of all the w-e-a-v-i-n-g. Send earplugs.

Meanwhile, I'm getting the itch to start one of my (way too many) planned projects, but I want to remain focused so I won't until I've finished up the last of the incompleted projects. In order to keep myself going on these projects, I tell myself [think Pippi and how she'd order herself around]: "Now listen here, missy! Don't you dare pull any of your stash yarns out of those ziplocs. No swatching. No gazing at the yarn lovingly, either. You're not allowed to pull those ziplocs out from their hiding places all over the apartment until you finish up your unfinished projects, and I'm not kidding. First you finish your husband's raglan sweater. Then you finish that pretty cotton jacket. And in the interim, finish sewing up those swatches! There will be no new projects until all that's done. Got it? Good. Now to go your room and I don't want you to come out until I've heard a decent amount of needle clicking."

So, other than browse my pattern books in vain efforts to decide what winter sweater I'll be knitting first, I'm busy finishing up unfinished projects. (This is really the way I browse my pattern books. I'm a table monopolizer. Just throw 5-10 books on the table and browse them all at the same time. Is there any other way?)

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14 comments to this entry:

wait a sec, let me quick unpack the four (so far) boxes i've found that the mover marked "wool" so i can browse along with you! yup browsing is pure trouble...especially if you have the internet and a credit card anywhere near by!! :) now get moving on that sweater -- poor hubbo can't wear the same cabled one all the time now, can he!?! :)

[carolyn on 28 aug 03 @ 08:05 pm]

4 boxes? And isn't there another one on its way to you? [Whistles innocently.] :-)

[Becky on 28 aug 03 @ 08:41 pm]

the cable sweater is going to be gorgeous. I'm so glad you liked the bear - its nice to see him. Very cute. you deserve him for all that seaming..

[kerrie on 28 aug 03 @ 08:48 pm]

Seaming. Yuk. But screaming would scare the little doggie, hmm? Better treat that little problem with demon alcohol. That was a very stern lecture. If I were you, I wouldn't piss you off..at yourself.....well, you know.

[claudia on 28 aug 03 @ 11:05 pm]

Hmmmm.... Looks like my bed at night before DH gets to bed. Then I lay down with gads of yarn catalogs by my side and look at the yarns available. It drives my hubby absolutely bonkers, but I just tell him it's better than gads of boxes at our front door!! Not that they don't come anyways... ;-)

[Rose on 29 aug 03 @ 01:19 am]

Oh boy, oh boy, the raglan sweater and the cotton jacket return! I've been waiting to see how these come out. Hubby's sweater's looking good. Love that rounded neckline. I see you've got a lot of finishing work on your plate as well. We'll just have to have a little inter-continental finishing fiesta!

[alison on 29 aug 03 @ 02:55 am]

Hey! My swatch is a celebrity in that picture - how exciting! I'm so looking forward to having a stash...

[Donna on 29 aug 03 @ 03:12 am]

I think I need a lecture too.... finishing never was my strong point and now I've got way to many started projects..... looks like I'm off to my room to click those needles too!

[Sarah Winsor on 29 aug 03 @ 09:20 am]

perhaps I should reconsider making the other half's sister just a plain knitted baby blanket as opposed to a patchwork one? :x

[kim on 29 aug 03 @ 11:35 am]

Hey, LURVE that jacket. Is there any way to get that pattern in English in the good ol' US of A?

[Laura on 29 aug 03 @ 04:15 pm]

Finishing? Tsk, tsk, tsk. What? Who me? Do I have a few projects that need finishing before the rush into the next season? Darn! Yes, I guess I'd better get finishing as well. Fall pattern books? Oh No!

[Shirley on 29 aug 03 @ 04:19 pm]

Wow, excellent lecture. Off to finish all WIP's and I promise I won't start any new knitting til there done. I am too afraid of another lecture! ;)

[Kristine on 29 aug 03 @ 04:23 pm]

Not only are there Fall pattern books galore, but yarn stores over here are mostly filled with cold-weather yarns now. Cottons and cotton blends are slim pickins'...browsing makes me feel like I should be walking around wearing a snowsuit even though temps are still in the 90s. P.S. I'm finishing up projects now, but in a few weeks I'll be Madame La Startitis of a Million Projects again. Just wait and see.

[Becky on 29 aug 03 @ 04:52 pm]

Pippi style admonitions are the best kind of admonitions. I have a totally finished sweater for which all that remains is the finishing, and yet, I'm almost through another one. It just sits there, glaring at me. Bad, bad me. :)

[Rene on 29 aug 03 @ 05:30 pm]

August 28, 2003

Finishing. Oh yes. Just like that.

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