I suppose I could show you all the things I’ve started and frogged in the last few days. But it would be a picture of a pile of yarn - most of which you’ve seen before. Trust me, you don’t want to see what they were before I frogged them - some things are just too horrifying!
I’ve had serious trouble getting motivated this week and have done very little actual knitting. Lots of thinking - not much doing :)
For example, having found that my chunky wool chapeaux are sometimes a little too warm for indoors, I thought maybe a cotton hat would be just the ticket. I have a hank of Cascade Sierra that would fit that bill nicely - even if it is white :) And just because it’s been fermenting in the stash for a very long time, I thought adding a little pastel eyelash (Muppet pelt anyone?) to the fold up would be fun. So I cast on and started my ribbing only to discover, about three rounds in, that this would not only be big enough to go around my head, but my shoulders as well!
Sigh...frog…
And then there was what was going to be the great intarsia hat experiment! A ball of purple, a ball of teal and a ball of fuchsia yarn, light worsted weight. The band would be one color and the hat would alternate the other two colors. You don’t even want to know what that looked like. Eyelets are lovely when you plan them, but accidental holes never look like anything but...well...holes.
Froggety, frog, frog…
I still have to finish the sleeve on my sweater but somehow that seems terribly unappealing right now. I want something new! Fun! Colorful! Interesting!
I have startitis but nowhere to go with it… Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…
Welcome to Slump City - population - me!
Oh, it’ll get better; I know that :) I’ve been here before - we all have :)
It’s Lent (on the Christian calendar), and that means that these are available again - at least in New England.
We went and did a little shopping last night (hence the Hot Cross Buns) and I felt a bit more motivated when we got home, so there was this…
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oh, hot cross buns- i haven’t seen them available yet, but i know i will before easter morning when they are a standard breakfast fare- we’ve had lots of king cakes available in the bakeries although now that it is lent, they’re probably gone- another sure sign of the season will be the cadbury’s eggs on the candy shelves- who needs a calendar when a trip through the grocery stores and bakeries can tell us the season!!
add another to the population of slump city- i don’t know if i am in a real slump or just having a period of inertia- i get all wired up about doing a project, but long before i even get everything gathered to work on it, i’ve lost my ‘get up and go’ (it got up and left without me)-heck, i’m not even getting as far as startitis lately which is most annoying- i *do* seem to want to make a doily though, so maybe that will inspire me- doilies may be regrded as useless items by many, but they are certainly good when feeling idle (i guess it is sorta like having a ‘washcloth moment’)
stay happy-
For me, it’s not that I can’t find something to knit; it’s more that everything I touch ends up with mistakes. And inspiration? I’ve almost forgotten what that is! I think I’ll attribute it to the winter blahs; spring’s just around the corner and we can’t wait!!
I’ve never been a big fan of hot cross buns; it’s the candied fruit, something I’ve never liked. I will, however, be splurging on at least one Cadbury’s easter cream egg. Those are simply scrumptious!
Wow, is something going around right now, or what? I’ve got 4 projects on the needles right now, and damned if I want to work on any of them. I even picked up a hook again, to see if crocheting could cure the slumps, to no avail.
I have, hm, want-to-startitis? I keep thinking about starting something new, but nothing even speaks to me enough to actually START it.
Might be time to return to another craft I’ve long neglected, while the knitting juices get flowing again. (Perhaps the knitting goddess is angry with me for sewing so much? Hm. Must plan fibre sacrifice....)
Barb - Oooooh, King’s Cake! Now there’s nothing like that available around here and it’s something I would love to try. Maybe I’ll have to look up a recipe and try making one - but that would be evil…
On the other hand… :)
Ev - To tell you the truth, the buns are a combination of several things I don’t generally care for - sweet yeast bread, egg bread and candied fruit. And yet, the combination works somehow!
In the traditional recipes I was looking at earlier, it’s not candied fruit that’s used but currants - and I love currants :) That might be something to try!
Colleen - If I had to guess, we’re all at that interstitial point between seasons and our longing for winter to be over and for spring to begin is slopping into the rest of our lives. A form of spring fever perhaps?
I cringe at the thought of your fabric sacrifice. However, if I work at it, I can remember fabrics that would have been much better employed as sacrifice than as garments :) Maybe you have the right idea after all!
I love Hot Cross Buns and was pleased to see them at the grocery last night. However, I didn’t buy them. I was on a mission to get some Pancski (not sure that’s spelled correctly) donuts ... only see those right before Lent and I love the custard filled ones. I know I should have eaten them yesterday but it was breakfast this morning.
Charlotte - Those donuts surely do sound good - and I too love custard filled :) I don’t recognize the name though so I don’t think they’re available around here.
Probably a good thing :)
I am feeling the same way. I made a pair of slipper and felted them too long...way to small. I made a second pair of just knitted ones...too big (But, they fit my Mum). I am now trying another pair .
Maureen = Oh that’s got to be frustrating :( I hope the ones in progress now come out more to your liking. After all, you can’t go on just knitting slippers forever :)
Well, actually, I suppose you could - but how boring would that be?
Add me to the 2007 census for Startitis. Right pattern, wrong yarn; right yarn, wrong pattern; right project, wrong environment (I can’t count and make polite conversation at the same time). I finally contented myself by knitting baby hats all night for the hospital our Guild supports. Maybe that’s what I was supposed to do all along! Love your blog - soon it will be time for some of your wonderful tomato salad…
I stalled by finish-itis—several projects OTN and just about done, no motivation. We need spring time!
My mom made hot cross buns with currrants, and I still prefer that style.
Jo Ellyn - Heavens, you too? It’s really a frustrating feeling - like having a kitchen full of food and not knowing what to make for lunch :)
Ooooh - I hadn’t thought about the tomato salad for a while! Thanks for reminding me - something to look forward to!
Amaryllis - Aggravating, isn’t it? That’s where I am with my sweater too. I could finish it in a day if I could apply myself but I seem to have little interest in doing anything as constructive as that.
Maybe tomorrow :)
Mmm. Those are going to be gorgeous mitts. I’ve got startitis too or is it slumpitis. I’m not sure, but it’s definitely something in the air.
would you believe the HCBs came out at Safeway the week after New Years ? This is even MORE ridiculous when you consider that we are in the middle of a very very hot summer. I won’t buy them until lent just on principal.
Those hot cross buns look sensational. As catsmum says they start selling them here real early even the easter eggs but I don’t buy the buns either until lent starts. And as for the chocolate Easter Eggs they are a last minute job. The mitts will look lovely in the Jade Sea.
Opal - Thank you :) I liked the color when it came out of the dye pot, but as I work with it, it’s growing on me even more. I am, however, going to have to buy a green sweater or something to coordinate with them because they are the only item I own in anything even remotely like this color!
Susan - The day after New Year’s?!?!? Really? Wow - so if I went down to Oz, I could extend the time these yummy things are availble by another 2 months! Yipee!
Oh wait...you said it’s hot?
Er, maybe not, then :)
Helen - Thank you :) I did turn a cable the wrong way last night, but since these are for me, I decided to leave it and call it quirky. If anyone ever points it out to me, they’ll go on the Anal Knitters list :)
The chocolate and Easter candy comes out here as soon as Valentine’s day is over. That’s often in the general vicinity of the beginning of Lent, so I suppose the marketers feel that’s close enough! But, interestingly enough, the bakeries (in-market or otherwise) don’t offer the HCBs until Ash Wednesday.
