holding pattern

i'm juggling several knitting projects.  i'm in a knitting lull and i can't muster the energy to finish them.

petunia's sweater.  i only have a couple inches of neckline and one leaf of the button band.  if i don't get cracking on this, petunia will out grow it before it's even finished.  

mom's shawl that never ends.  i would like to give this to her for Christmas so it's a sort of deadline.  it's not a hard knit, but the drop stitch row is a bit of a PITA, spesh as the shawl grows.  i'm almost finished with the first ball of yarn...and i have another ball to go.


my galaxy capelet.  a couple of inches in, almost finished with the first (of five) skeins.  it's also not a hard knit, but i have to focus to make sure i have the correct number of stitches.  i am using stitch markers to help with this, but i just lost focus on it.  i love the yarn - it's crazy soft and nice to work with - but right now i feel meh about the shawl.


my boo socks.  the first sock took me two days to knit.  the second will prolly take two months.


my knitmore girls vanilla sock.  i started these on a cold fall day.  i haven't worked on them since.  they're older than my boo socks!


i thought i'd make grams a pair of gloves for christmas this year.  so far i have a wrist.  i'm dragging my feet on these becos i am dreading the finger part.  challenge accepted?


my weasleys pants hat is at least on the road to completion.  i have about another inch to go before i can start the crown decreasing.  once i finish this hat (and hopefully hooty becos i'm so close to finishing that one) i can start finishing up my other WIPs.



i also need to make a couple of coffee cup sleeves for the kids' teachers for christmas gifts.  hopefully these will be easy to knock off in a day or two.

being sick this fall (and nursing three kids back to health when i wasn't sick) has severely cut into my knitting.  i got some good knitting time waiting during the boy's choral rehearsals (got great podcast time in as well) but i need more than an hour of knitting a week.  also, i'm discovering that as i grow older i'm lousy with knitting deadlines.  and if i'm this bad with knitting, what will i be like when i go back into the working world?!