"It's Done! Done!" she screamed madly

Yes, it's true ... I finally did it ...

I finished the log cabin blanket!!! It's done - done - done!

Can you tell I'm excited? Euphoric wouldn't be too strong a word. I can't stop heaving huge sighs of relief.

I did some checking back in my old blog posts, and I discovered that I started this blanket on January 19, 2007. And finished it one year and 2 1/2 weeks later. It's a little bigger than I thought I'd managed to get to before I gave up ... that's a queen size air mattress it's spread out on.




In other good news, I ran out to Joann's tonight after work, and got this little gem.




It's my OTT-Lite, the little 'task' light which was on sale for $39.99 (half price! can you believe the price of these things? it better help me embroidery and cure my mid-winter blahs) and will work just peachy for my embroidery. In fact, it's lighting up the left half of the blanket in those pictures above, since I had it sitting on a side table when I took the pictures. (It was a little too far away to light up the whole blanket; but you can sure see the difference in colors between the left side, and the right side lit by a regular household incandescent light).

So I'll be all set when I start on the embroidery again - soon! I'm still going through a bit of withdrawal from the log cabin blanket. You know, it's weird when you finish a very long-term knitting project. The first time I did it, I actually had a kind of post-partum depression ... something that had been attached to my hands for so long suddenly gone and living an independent life.

I didn't really get that with this blanket ... I would be lying if I said I wasn't glad it was done. It's less like post-partum depression and more like watching your 20-year-old finally get their own damned apartment.

But I still want to savor that feeling of accomplishment, of 'done-ness' for awhile, before I officially move onto another project - especially one that's destined to be so time-intensive. (Not that I'm complaining! I live for this stuff ... the day job's only purpose is to be able to afford more fiber).


(It's done!!!!)