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February 15, 2005

All the cool kids are doing it

Okay, MK is in for the WIP challenge, and has declared her works in progress outstanding in today's blog entry. She's even finished things already, so she's way ahead of me. Tracy and Jenni are also in. Anybody else brave enough to finish before you start?

You don't have to declare everything you have on the needles, or as many as I did. Just choose which works in progress you're vowing to finish before starting anything new, and post them on your blog. The reason I chose to finish nine plus one things is because I am a crazy woman and like to torture myself once in a while just to see if I can handle it (once I fasted for a week; once I listened to all the records I own in alphabetical order. Fasting was easier, and I have now weeded some crap out of my record collection that I never want to force myself to listen to again).

My ten WIPs (grammatically speaking, shouldn't it really be WsIP?) are everything I have on the needles, but only because I went through my entire stash and made some harsh decisions, and everything I will never, ever finish (and don't want to) I pulled the needles out of. Remember those black and red mittens? Those bitches were going to felt the first time they hit the outside air; they're off the needles. I had to say goodbye to a sweet little blue lacy top that I started six years ago on my first Greyhound trip to Atlanta, because I lost the pattern and it's really not my style anymore anyway.

I think we should all set ourselves some kind of deadline, but I'm not going to impose one for everyone else, because this is a personal challenge. I have set myself the deadline of March 20th to finish my nine things, for two reasons:

1. I am a crazy woman.

2. Peter has finally agreed to let me make him a sweater, and even given me some direction for what he wants it to look like. His birthday is April 9th, and I'm deluding myself that if I get my WIPs done by March 20th then I'll be able to design and knit his sweater in time for his birthday, and I'll be ahead of the deadline to submit it to Knitty's summer men issue. Hah.

3. We are going to Wisconsin next week, and since I don't drive, this means Peter is driving me to Wisconsin and I get to knit the whole way. I should be able to finish something in all that time.

I have made a little progress on Clapotis,

and since the web is full of photos of half-finished versions of this, this is the last picture I will show you before it's finished. I'm going to be putting it aside for a bit, because I should have been working on my Knitty submission (it's due today but I'm going to be late), but that has colourwork that isn't in a regular pattern I can memorize so I haven't been able to take it with me, thus I've been bringing easier things to knit on the bus and in class. Now that I'm past the colourwork section I can take the Knitty project instead; my deadline for that is now Saturday morning, because we are going bowling for my brother Kela's birthday, and wouldn't it be cool to photograph the finished garment in a bowling alley? Because it's going to look so damned cute with bowling shoes.

Posted by jodi at February 15, 2005 12:00 PM | categories:  knit design : sticks and string

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