Festivus for the rest of us

This is the Festivus stole. It started out as an interesting project to knit. It was a good project to take on the airplane. The chart was large and easy to follow.

Perhaps too easy. By the time I was a quarter of the way through, I was no longer thrilled with it. At the half way point, I was annoyed because the color in the second ball of yarn did not start out in a controlled way. I pulled out part of the ball and knit on....reluctantly.

The knot that i ran into annoyed me more. Again I pulled out part of the ball of yarn and tried to match stripes so I could have identical stripes. By this time, I was really not enjoying the knitting and had started calling it Crapicus. I wanted it to be finished.

But it wasn't long enough. I thought about making a short stole but I knew I wouldn't be happy with it and I would have yarn left over. I kept knitting.


I finished it. I really didn't take me that long to knit it but it did make me think about the kind of knitter that I am.

I love starting new projects. I love finishing projects. I get bogged down in the middle.

Long, repetitive patterns like this stole are not the kind of projects that I should start. Lace projects that continually change are better than stocking stitch patterns.



Hurani was as close to being a perfect pattern. I finished it in less than a week so it didn't hang around taunting me for a long time. Long before I got bored with the repetitive easy first chart, the pattern switched and I was into the edging. The second chart was finished in a flash and I was on to the crocheted cast off.

It's a great little shawlette to wear, I love the color and the only thing that would make it better would be some beads.

I have started another pair of socks. I'm not loving them. It's the third time I've knit the Eleanor socks and while I like the pattern, there are very few patterns that should be knit more than once or twice. You may hear me call them the Crapinor socks before I'm done.