Project Orgy

I was being so good till last night -- I had three projects on the needles, for three different sorts of moods; a pair of socks, for completely mindless knitting; the "Margaret Tudor," for times when I feel like knitting a puzzle piece; and "Queen Anne's Lace," for cozy sitting on the sofa watching TV and going through rows and rows of small gauge knitting in complex subtle color changes. But last night I just LOST it -- I swatched for two more projects. I may well swatch another tonight -- that'll mean 6 projects on the needles. Well, not counting the Colinette "Ab Fab" throw I have knocking around at work.

But I feel -- oh, I don't know -- safer, I guess, having all these projects started. It's not the same thing, just having the yarn and the patterns ready to go. If they're started, and I can pick them up and work on them anytime, then they really exist. They're not just plans stuck in sacks.

Of course, it also makes me nervous, having so many projects on the needles. So much to do. So little getting done.

Weird.

Anyway. I'm now, apparently, besides working on the aforementioned three projects, also working on a lace-swirl pullover in indigo colored silk "Mandalay" from Reynolds, and Elsebeth Lavold's "Cul-de-sac" vest, from the Fall, 2003, Knitter's, in Lavold's "Silky Wool," in a lovely olive green tweed. I've got some mohair with a metallic thread upstairs, too, and that would knit up quickly, and it would be nice to have something shiny and fluffy around. So I might put that on the needles, too.

Oh, damn. I forgot I've got that "Elephants" vest I want to get done in the next two weeks. Bother.

Clearly, I can NOT go back to work tomorrow.

I expect I need to take it easy tomorrow -- probably I've been up and around WAY too soon, after nearly knocking myself out on the laundry room door.

Yes, that's it. That'll work. A little rest.

Maybe another week...