Startitis

Oh, this week has been horrible for more than one reason.  So, it's riddled with startitis.  At least I'm narrowed down to just the knitting, but I can't decide.  I am working on something for a friend of mine, thankfully that is half done.  I won't say what it is until after she receives it.  I have made her project before, so at least it is easy to whip up and won't become a "WIP" for much longer.

Shawls however have recently intrigued me.  I do tend to make things for all the ones I love, and yet I deprive myself.  So, I narrowed it down to three shawls.  Bought the yarn, bought new needles, bought the patterns. I cast on the first one.  The Vermont shawl by Hanna Breetz.  It's so beautiful with layers of leaves, and the picture shows it in a stunning deep green, very reminiscent of Vermont.  I used to spend summers and winters in Vermont, but then I moved ever so far away, that it's just impractical to go there now.  Which is one reason why I picked this pattern, as a memory of my favorite place.  Anyway, this week my head is just not in the game.  So, off the needles they went.

I moved on to the Holden Shawlette by Mindy Wilkes.  Sigh.  I'm telling you, I am too stupid for this.  Tiny little lace pattern, easy as pie, and it's making me want to stab myself in the eye.  I will do this pattern, but right now I just can't concentrate.  I knitted, frogged back, re-read the pattern, knitted, frogged back and was left with a piece the size of a quarter.  Nope, not happening this week.

What was left?  The hitchhiker pattern by Martina Behm.  Once again, I cast on, panicked, frogged back, found that I was right all along, and now I can move forward.  Hopefully, this is the one.  Somehow I just have to get through one pattern.  Life lesson right?  Just take things one step at a time and evenutally you'll get there.  I don't care what craft your doing, it has to fit your mood and your frame of mind and sometimes you just can't force the issue.