Don't know quite what did it, but after weeks and weeks and weeks of not a single knitted stitch passing through my fingers, I actually reached over the side of the bed the other night while hubby was watching somethig not terribly interesting to me on t.v., pulled up my favorite knitting bag and began knitting on that pink silk shrug again -- yippee! That was Sunday night and I knit a little while J-Daughter was on the TKD mat last night, and I plan on taking it with me again tonight! I may actually finish it before Thanksgiving, ya think?
And then this crossed my path just a few minutes ago...
and the "Hey, that looks cool -- I want to make THAT" juices started to flow and I think, maybe, I'm cured! Why now, finally? No clue. Not at all. Why does this Wobbly Circles Tote excite me? Well, for one, it's a PURSE. (And you know me and purses, bags, totes, all of them, they call to me.) And two, it's FELTED, which is always fun. (Okay, it's not ALWAYS fun. Sometimes it is a disaster. I have a disaster made out of this very same Montera yarn stuffed way, way, way in the back of my knitting cupboard, but we don't have to speak of it anymore. Or ever again.) And three, I've never done intarsia. (Well, I did like 20 years ago. That was before I even had kids. I don't think it counts anymore.) Of course, I'm like half-a-year late on the KAL. Or, I WILL be by the time I get to it. The pattern is from the Spring 2006 Interweave Knits. Don't I have that somewhere around here? Hello -- bathroom towel armoire? Basket 'o knitting mags on the bedroom floor? Where are you, O '06 IK?
The same thing happens to me. Sometimes I stop knitting for awhile, and then suddenly I just get going again for no known reason.
Posted by: Jen | July 25, 2006 at 03:12 PM
If you begin that bag, Beth, I'll do it with you!! lmk
(Back from the URJ Kallah)
xoKaren
Posted by: Karen W. | July 24, 2006 at 01:50 PM
That is a pretty bag! Don't know why I didn't notice it before!
Posted by: Stacie | July 11, 2006 at 08:40 PM