I'm just back from yet another business trip. I haven't been idle, but I feel like I have nothing to show for all my work since I have 4
nearly finished projects rather than any one completed thing. And I'm in a complete disarray as far as what to do next. Here's a quick tour of my frustrations.
First, I am nearly done with
my skirt. Really, I'm just a shrinking number of fell stitches away from finished. Oh, and if you are not familiar with the fell stitch,
here's a Threads tutorial on it. In the past, I've used a slip (or blind) stitch for hand sewing the lining to the zipper tape. But I decided that it was time for me to up my game and use what the couture pros do. I think there's more fell stitching in my future. So, no time like the present to work on my technique.
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| Still. Not. Done. Grumble. Grumble. |
The other three projects are all knit gifts.
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| 1+1/2 Tardis socks. Garrrrr! |
First, knee high TARDIS victory socks for my sister Erato who ran the New York City Marathon on Sunday - her first marathon! Definitely a sock-worthy event, if only my knitting was as fast as her running!
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| 85% of CrissCross Applesauce Baby Blanket. Aaarg! |
Next, I'm knitting a baby blanket for dear friends who just had their first child. And to go with the blanket, I'm almost finished with a mama duck and some ducklings.
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| Duck parts. Bah! |
Seriously, the ducks are all knit, I just have to sew the wings, feet and beaks on and give this little flock some faces.
Anyway, I'm irritated and distracted because I don't know which I want to work on first. So, I've been skipping back and forth without finishing any of them and annoying myself in the process. I think part of my problem is that I don't really know what I want to sew or knit next, so I'm kind of stalling for time. I'm buried under an avalanche of ideas (really awesome good ones!) and my first free (non-working) weekend in three weeks is rapidly approaching and I'm finding myself sort of paralyzed. Also, I'm exhausted from travel and haven't really settled back into life at home yet.
Do you ever get in a rut like this? How do you snap yourself out of it. I'm thinking that I should finish the ducklings and skirt this weekend and that my next sewing project after the skirt is done should be easy or quick, to get me back into my groove. What do you think?
