Committment issues.
I had the Lopi pull-over in one piece by Friday. Have I worked on it since? Hell no. Are you crazy? That would mean I'd be, like, working on something that needs to get done!
Confession time: I did have size 10 dpns. Want to know how I know? I was knitting the first sleeve onto the body and noticed that I had one... strange... needle. Turns out that I was using 4 size 10 dpns and one size 10.5. I had only bothered to measure the 10.5. What was really ridiculous was that it was an entirely different sort of needle. It was shorter, darker, had a different tip. I didn't notice until I finished the sleeve. How's that for awareness? The Zen knitters are horrified, certainly.
Instead of continuing on the Lopi path, I started a hat and was done in an evening. It'll be, along with some mittens, a Yule present for someone (not telling who). It took one skein of Crystal Palace Labrador (I've had four skeins stashed for about two years!), 10.5 circulars, and 75 stitches.
Alas, the urge for another small project hit, and this urge was satisfied yesterday. I taught my friend Katie to knit, and part of that involved an excursion to Depth of Field Yarn. I was all over the sale loft, of course, but didn't really mean to buy anything. But there was this Regia strata color that I loved - navy, with dark pink, purple, green, brown, and grey. So I bought it, and more size 2 dpns. I keep losing them. Later I realized I should've bought size 1's for a firmer fabric, but that lamentation was for naught. These are fab! Soon I will have to commit to a public side.
 This?
 Or this?
Isn't the suspense horrible?
No question 'bout my committment to my man, though. Last night he sat next to me, watched About A Boy and celebrity poker, and knit this. He's so good! (And cute! But that goes without saying.)
An admission of weakness
Try as I might, I couldn't stay away from the Mission Falls wool on sale at Busy Hands Yarn. They have all the colors I needed for the Campus Scarf from Scarf Style, and it was $3.95 a ball. A local store had all the colors, but was a $1.50 more per ball; including shipping, I saved twelve bucks. And that makes it all okay.
I do a thing with yarn purchases, online and off. If I really want something, have the urge to buy it, I try to wait. If I still want it a day or a week later, if I couldn't forgive myself if I passed it up, then I buy it (assuming it's a reasonable cost). The whole depravation thing doesn't appeal to me, but neither do lots of impulse purchases.
Besides, it's time for another stash sale, I think. I keep finding more things to cull, and that will make up for my enthusiasm for new yarn.
Tipper @ 6:35 PM * link
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