I’ve given up on the scarf for Aunt Mad. I just can’t find something that I think she would like. I mean, this woman has been knitting for over 80 years, so there’s nothing I could knit that she hasn’t already knitted herself. Its very intimidating. I have another plan, an easier one, a knitted gift that everyone enjoys. Spa cloths. I’m going to make three sets of spa cloths, one for Aunt Mad, one for Myra, one for Ann. I’ll go to the Scent Shop that has these great handmade soaps and purchase some, tie the cloths and cute soaps up with a cute ribbon and voila! I shall have hand knitted giftery that won’t drive me insane trying to make it.
Really, it was making me crazy. I started with two projects on the needles and now I have four. I started and stopped countless other projects and my knitting area was a total wreck. I came to the realization that I don’t want to knit a big gift on a deadline, deadlines make me nuts, the closer the deadline comes the less work I do on whatever needs to be done. I want to knit my Cozy Shawl, I want to be able to start on Shawl That Jazz without a bunch of other WIP’s floating around. This is just me being neurotic, but still.
So this week and weekend I shall work on washcloths, then I will go back to my own projects.