Author: Kelly

I’ve got news – and no news.  In the past couple weeks, I found a tiny bit of time to knit (i.e about an hour a day, at lunchtime, at work).  As usual, it’s not fast enough!  I’ve got one completed mitt, with no ends woven in, and the partial cuff of Mitt #2.  I’ve got most of a cowl pattern mostly sorted out, but no final version, yet.  My resolve to not start anything new was bent, once again, by the draw of the spin-a-long.  Halfway through March, Southern Cross Fiber’s David announced a spin-a-long challenge.  He called it Get Happy, and it drew me in like a moth to a flame.  The idea was that the challenge would run though the end of April; in other words, the deadline to have finished yarn is in one week!  I don’t know anyone who doesn’t get at least slightly stressed out about short notice, even for projects that are supposed to be for fun.  But without deadlines, well – I for one, would get nothing done.  Meanwhile, in my life in general, crap hit the fan, as they say, and angst ensued, and man, did I ever have an ever-loving hankering to “get happy” with some fiber spinning!!  My first instinct was to tear into my newly arrived club fiber (yes, I’m part of a monthly fiber club, and I’m SO far behind with it all), the colorway of which is entitled “Closer To Home”.  The name, the colors, just – wow.  The downside: it’s BFL.  But it’s oatmeal colored BFL (not that you can really see that through the beautiful dyeing, but I know it, therefore, it matters, haha).  Plus, it’s a BFL blend, and has silk in it – luxury, right!?  The instant I pulled it out of the mailer bag, I decided: this, needs to be socks!

But!  I’m already spinning this, which is a legitimate project on My List for this year, and it’s Southern Cross Fiber, so the responsible thing to do would be to use it for the spinning challenge:

The very tempting, newly-arrived fiber is no where near my pre-planned This Year’s Project List.  I’m trying really hard to talk myself out it starting it.  I’ll let you know how that goes…

Meanwhile, all the other half-finished or barely-started projects on my list are still staring at me balefully from their respective project bags.  I know, full well, that you can relate.  I suppose the good news is, when you like all the options you have, there’s no bad choice to make!  Aren’t we crafters lucky?