I've noticed this week that some knitters are setting themselves deadlines to finish things. I think this is an idea worth borrowing. I want to have things finished; to look ahead, estimate the (here's the key) realistic amount of time it will take to close the gap between where I am now and last end woven in, and then go for it. I might actually accomplish something.
I work well with deadlines. Assuming I take them seriously.
I think having PS 136 done for Rhinebeck may not have been a deadline that I understood as, uh, serious. Especially since I didn't even go to Rhinebeck. Must change that this year, husband be damned.
But to consider this Mission Possible pledge as 12 things already on the needles to be finished in 12 months, I should probably get one of those done as February looms. How about, oh, Arwen?
So I washed up more of the yarn, and set to the hood. Knitting knitting knitting.
13 inches of hood, the pattern says?
Knitting knitting knitting.
This is taking forever.
Knitting knitting knitting
A race with the Red Queen, anyone?
Knitting knitting knitting.
Days go by. The moon wanes and waxes.
Knitting knitting knitting.
And still:
screw what i said. measure your head. or measure a hood. or never wear it as a hood and stop there.
PS. send me your gauge please!
Posted by: kate | January 23, 2008 at 11:09 PM
aaahhh! you've fallen into a black hole!
Posted by: Ruth | January 23, 2008 at 11:32 PM
ha! and if it's anything like my knitting, the next time you measure it will be 13.5! how does that happen?
Posted by: anne | January 23, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Gotta love it when the pattern's designer pops in to say 'Geez, dude, don't listen to Me.'
Posted by: Rachel H | January 24, 2008 at 12:15 AM
Don't you hate it when you knit and knit and knit and it doesn't even grow? Good luck finishing!
Posted by: Carole | January 24, 2008 at 07:22 AM
People always go on about how sleeves are purgatory for sweater knitting. Those people have never knit a hood. Hood knitting takes for-freakin'-ever!
Posted by: caro | January 24, 2008 at 07:36 AM
Mistress Linda says: "Less typing! More knitting!" *swish-CRACK!*
Posted by: Linda D | January 24, 2008 at 07:37 AM
I had a plan to finish Arwen in time for SPA. HAhahahahahaha! Yeah right. I'm still at the first sleeve .
Posted by: Cheryl | January 24, 2008 at 08:44 AM
You have days to go before February!! You can do it!
Posted by: cyn | January 24, 2008 at 08:48 AM
I hate it when that happens. I can spend a whole night knitting and get up the next morning, all excited to spread out my work and congratulate myself on being "almost finished", only to find out I still have half the back of That Damn Sweater to go.
Posted by: liz | January 24, 2008 at 09:01 AM
That is what I'm starting to worry about with this whole Mission Possible. I've got FIVE sweaters on my list. Adult sized. FOR ME. Who is not a small adult. The good news is that one is almost done, the second all I needed to do is send off for finishing, and the 3rd is already up to the neck shaping. But then there are 2 more. Still happily sitting in my stash. Not even wound into balls.
Death march anyone? Dum dum dum dumdadum da da dum.
Hey. It's only January, right?
Posted by: Cece | January 24, 2008 at 09:20 AM
Oh - but I did finish my Bird in Hand. Things that I was jsut thinking about knitting when I saw you. Freaking LOVE those mittens. Pictures on my blog today.
Posted by: Cece | January 24, 2008 at 09:21 AM
I want to see that sweater at SPA, young lady. So don't go putting it in a bag at the back of a closet somewhere when you are so close to the end.
Posted by: Danielle | January 24, 2008 at 09:26 AM
The next bit is when you knit and knit some more and suddenly it is 15 inches. Hi!
I pulled out the unfinished sweaters in the cubbies of doom and assessed them for their viability. It might be your fault.
Posted by: juno | January 24, 2008 at 09:32 AM
So close, yet so far away...
Posted by: Jason | January 24, 2008 at 09:57 AM
Someone in this vicinity "finishes" sweaters? Please send that address asap. My next deadline is Valentine's Day - for the family gifts that weren't done on Christmas..... Only six to go. Of course, some of them are pairs, so only nine to go. Why can't the Brownies come in the night like they did in my childhood folk tales books and finish the second half of mittens/gloves/socks? I wouldn't mind at all.
Posted by: Mary K. IN Rockport | January 24, 2008 at 10:22 AM
So your close, right? And the problem is? Pour yourself another cuppa and knit already. :) (There now, don't you feel encouraged?!)
Posted by: Kim | January 24, 2008 at 11:34 AM
P.S. Did you check out Woolybun's "new" wheel? Now that I've sold it, I am tap, tap, tapping my foot, patiently of course, for my Watson to arrive. Are you ready for yours?
Posted by: Kim | January 24, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Ah, the infamous black hole! And you're actually knitting with black (or very dark grey?) yarn, which only adds insult to injury...
Posted by: Beth S. | January 24, 2008 at 04:05 PM
Two and a smidge measly inches. Close, very close....
Also: Hoods ARE black holes. Bigger than you think they're going to be. Perception is weird sometimes. Or maybe I just did too many drugs in college. Dunno, but keep knitting!
Posted by: Madge | January 24, 2008 at 05:44 PM
Time space continuums, or something like that. Same source as the knitting deadlines concept.
Posted by: Laurie | January 24, 2008 at 07:38 PM
My resolution this year was to avoid signing up for knitting deadlines. And oddly enough, I'm finishing more projects than ever.
Of course that could be more related to my other resolution to avoid housework.
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Posted by: knitography | January 25, 2008 at 01:11 PM