Thursday, December 6, 2007

Year End Knitting Inferiority Complex

While sprucing up the blog, I went to see what all I had on my "2007 Finished Projects" page. I should have known better. I should have known what I've done (or not done) this year. But to see nothing but one dish cloth was just sad. How can I even call myself a knitter?

Oh, well ... there is that never-ending log cabin blanket which I did work on all year, despite refusing to declare it done yet. It will get an honorary place on the page, when I get a chance to take another picture of it.

At least I posted a picture of the one finished pair of Christmas-present socks I have so far. And if all goes as planned, I'll have two more pairs to add to it soon. At least, I'm supposed to get these done by Christmas - actually, earlier than that, in time to mail to arrive by Christmas. But it doesn't look like there's going to be much of anything else on my finished projects page this year. Sad.

I did put up a Christmas tree this year. That's not a given. For many years I didn't put one up or decorate at all. The first year my boyfriend lived here we decorated for Christmas, then last year I lost interest again so he put up a tree himself. This year of all years I was surprised I wanted one, since I'm pretty well dreading Christmas entirely. But I did. Mostly I just like the lights, at night, with the other lights in the room off - although it makes it hard to knit. Only because it's socks with tiny stitches ... I could probably work on the log cabin blanket in the light from the tree alone, I put about a million lights on a tree. My theory is, if you can't read by the light of the tree alone, there aren't enough lights on it.

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