The Gods Must Be Crazy
Not for throwing Coke bottles, but because I actually thought about doing the Icarus Shawl as a Christmas present.
1) there are only EIGHT weeks between now and Christmas.
2) included in those EIGHT weeks is my regular schedule of classes, Halloween, my daughter's birthday, closing on the new house, moving into the new house, Thanksgiving, finals week, and graduation. Oh yeah, did I mention that I'm scheduled to deliver baby #3 just TWO DAYS after Christmas?
3) I have not done any lace work in anything lighter than worsted, any more repeats than 15 stitches, or requiring a chart. Now is not the time to start in on a large charted lace pattern.
4) I have no money to spend on additional patterns and yarn (see birthday and house in #2).
5) I am on a yarn diet. Stash-busting is a must. The only yarn purchases allowed are in the case of needing one more skein to finish an active project, and that project must be bound off within 5 days of the yarn purchase!
But, Icarus (and, subsequently, Seraphim) will stay on my mind and my "want to do" list. I especially want to do Icarus in KnitPicks Shadow "Campfire" or KnitPicks Shimmer "Maple Leaf" (hint. hint.)
1) there are only EIGHT weeks between now and Christmas.
2) included in those EIGHT weeks is my regular schedule of classes, Halloween, my daughter's birthday, closing on the new house, moving into the new house, Thanksgiving, finals week, and graduation. Oh yeah, did I mention that I'm scheduled to deliver baby #3 just TWO DAYS after Christmas?
3) I have not done any lace work in anything lighter than worsted, any more repeats than 15 stitches, or requiring a chart. Now is not the time to start in on a large charted lace pattern.
4) I have no money to spend on additional patterns and yarn (see birthday and house in #2).
5) I am on a yarn diet. Stash-busting is a must. The only yarn purchases allowed are in the case of needing one more skein to finish an active project, and that project must be bound off within 5 days of the yarn purchase!
But, Icarus (and, subsequently, Seraphim) will stay on my mind and my "want to do" list. I especially want to do Icarus in KnitPicks Shadow "Campfire" or KnitPicks Shimmer "Maple Leaf" (hint. hint.)
2 Comments:
Icarus, Mountain Peaks, & Seraphim are all on my mental "to knit" list too. I've managed to keep some sort of grip on my gift-knitting plans this year, though, & have decided that Seraphim can be for my mother for NEXT year's birthday.
I have 3 children also, one of whom is a just before Christmas baby. (He was early -- just let me warn you to have Christmas prep done for your older children as far in advance as you can manage. I had to stay up late making sure Santa was ready the night that I brought my younger son home from the hospital. That was less than ideal.)
My kids are old enough now to enjoy the movie you referenced. I'll have to look into getting a copy somehow.
Thank you for the advice :). I'd be careful about the movie though, depending on the age of the children. I haven't seen in a quite a number of years, but I seem to remember my mother being quite upset that her pre-teen had seen it. I don't remember what she found to particularly "racy" about it.
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