39 Inches of Funk.

In the seemingly never ending quest to complete the lace border for the Lacy Hug Me Tight I spent a good portion of the weekend picking it up, knitting a few repeats, and setting it back down again. I had a hardcore case of the "dear Lord, please let me finish one of these knitting projects!-any knitting project will do!" itis, which also led me to knitting miles of Over the Forest socks when I wasn't slogging away on the 'ole huggy.

Basically all that this back and forth got me was 2 projects that are very nearly at the end, but with no actual crossing of the finish line. If I had stuck with one I would have surely been done.

Good news on the massive lace edging knitting was that upon the last measurement, I finally got beyond the Bermuda knitting triangle of 32" and I am now the proud owner of 39" instead ( of unstretched/unblocked length...) Bad news is that its starting to look a little dicey because I am almost out of my last ball of yarn. Fingers crossed that they still have a hank of the correct dye lot squirreled away somewhere.

I continue to remain on my best behaviour as the Webs anniversary sale continues...I haven't made any new stash building purchases, even though I am mad with wanting the Cascade Ecowool to make Brooklyn Tweed's Hemlock Ring blanket. Yep. I'm on a yarn diet. I will only buy what I need to complete projects that are currently on the needles and no more.

I keep telling myself that I need to do major stash busting instead, and I'm sure that I have enough stashed fiber that I could spin for it instead of buying yarn anyway. What a fun project to spin! I'll keep you posted if and when this one gets started. It probably won't gain momentum till after I get back from Peru. I should be good and hold off on the knitting on it till I make a dent in the christmas knitting (Since it is purely a "yay pretty!" project for Boygenius and myself) but spinning up the yarn and knowing that its there for the knitting will be nifty.

Or... (and this is one masterful stroke of rationalization) I could totally cheat and make it a Christmas present for Boygenius...then it would be Christmas knitting.

Oh, I like it! If only I used my powers for good instead of evil.