I have discovered known all along that I am not a terribly disciplined person when it comes to finishing things in a timely manner. I need to start writing lists again.

I do finish every project that I start. Eventually.

The Dulaan jumper is still sitting in it's little plastic bag with it's underarms ungrafted and v-neck unribbed. The lace shawl I started knitting in the middle of last year is hidden under my desk and gets kicked every now and again when I stretch out my legs. My hat book hasn't been touched since Jamie lost his job at the beginning of February. The Home Work book hasn't been worked on in over a year. My small looms page remains unfinished even though people have been begging me for the rest of the instructions and my stack of embroidery patterns isn't scanning itself as far as I can tell. Breeding perhaps, but not scanning. And I need to spin some yarn that the owner has been patiently been waiting for half of forever.

OK, the Home Work book couldn't be helped because the paperwork was in storage, but it's out now and thanks to my Sis I have a gazillion skeins of fine yarn to knit the samples with. Maybe I should make it a knitwiki project. If wikis were around when I started it would have been finished years ago... thats definitely something to consider.

I didn't work on my hat book because Jamie has been unemployed home and this is a small house. Photography + 2 people in a house when the photography has to be done in the living room = chaos and no photos. But Jamie starts his new job tomorrow so I can work on that. And I'm no longer paralysed by the thought of not being able to pay all of the rent because we managed to keep all the rent and bills paid regardless. I don't know quite how we managed it but we did.

The next set of daisy loom instructions shouldn't take long to do. I could do that today.

I don't like knitting the shawl because the yarn is all splitty. I'll rip it out and keep the yarn for weaving.

So what have I been doing? I've been bad.

I've been knitting baby surprise jackets as stress relief. The orange and blue yarn in the photo has been in my stash for about a year (so it's relatively new, haha) and has been knit into a hat for my hat book (but I ran out of yarn and ripped it out), then I used it to knit something else and ripped that out and finally it became a baby surprise with just enough yarn left over to reknit the collar because I attached it inside out by mistake (duh). I'm currently 2/3 of my way through a 2nd baby surprise so I can show one with longer sleeves.

I also tidied up the knitting wiki with a list of projects and hopefully made it easier for editors to find the info they want. Several people made a lot of excellent changes to articles last night (and wrote some new ones), I hope that's an indication that my changes are useful.

Now, I think I'll go and rip out that shawl, have some breakfast, get out the daisy looms and my camera and get to work! I'm itching to knit some fingerless gloves from a pattern from 1933 from some purple Opal sock wool and I want to get a whole slew of things finished before I succumb.

PS: Yarn purchased in 2007 is still at zero and I'm totally loving knitting from the stash!

PPS: I ripped out the shawl while adding the links to this entry. That's one thing to cross off the list!