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Showing posts with label Garden Patch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden Patch. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Best laid plans...

Reviewing my UFOs yesterday didn't help as much as I thought it would. For one thing, I realized that I'm in an awful lot of knit-alongs right now. And I want to do them! I'm beginning to wonder if I can really do NaNoWriMo this year or not.

Here's my rationale for the moment, until I switch back to wanting to write. If I don't write after all, I could do some marvelous stuff. For example, I could swatch and start knitting Autumn Rose. Which I very much want to do.

And I am also in the Anne Knit-and-Read-Along. Someone on Ravelry noted that they're going to do a Philosopher's Wool sweater for the knitalong. Weeeeell. Philosopher's Wool is Canadian. Anne is Canadian. The pattern is traditional fair isle. 1907 is traditional (err, old). I have the kit for their Garden Patch sweater, and in fact I bought it at Sheep and Wool. Not last year... the year before. Oops.

So maybe I will have to reconsider my goals for November. Is it better to write a bad shoddy novel that will never be published anyways... or to knit two beautiful fair isle sweaters that I will be able to wear and enjoy for decades to come?

I swear, if these are the difficult decisions of my adult life I am a charmed woman. Good thing I have a few more weeks to decide one way or the other. I guess if I choose to knit, I could sign up for NaSweKniMo instead...but could I realistically knit an entire fair isle sweater in the month of November? I guess if the goal is 50,000 stitches, I could distribute that over both sweaters. Ponderponder.

Don't both of them beg to be knitted?
Autumn Rose
Philosopher's Wool pattern