Ok, time for a Knitting Resolution update. Remember how in the original posts I mentioned how come January it would be 2 years that I have been working on this blanket. So the resolution was to work on it everyday until December 31st, in the hopes that it would be completed.
And I am nothing if not resolute, so I diligently carried my bag around everywhere I went - if you've seen me at all into he past 2 months, you probably never saw me sans my knitting.
Well it paid off- sort off. At 6:52pm on Monday January 1st, I put the last stitch into the body of my blanket. I bound off, and laid it on my bed - it covers the whole thing. I called my family upstairs, made a lamo drum roll sounds, and invited them into my room to view the almost completed Masterpiece.
So now all that is left is the border. I spend most of yesterday driving around to 3 different stores in order to find the right kind of circular needles (aparently really long ones are hard to find) and they were ridiculously expensive. I took the whole kit and caboodle over to Joslyn's who's going to teach me how to do the border.
Apparently there is a problem with figuring out how to space out the border stitches, so I had to leave my bag over at her house last night.
Kinda feels weird to be mostly done. I'll post a picture of it when it's completely finished. I'm considering charging admission for people to come and view it :)
So I didn't exactly accomplish my task, but I'm ok with how much I have left.
I also have not stuck to my other resolutions and we're only 3 days into the new year.
I resolved not to spend any money in January (other than Gas, and regular bills) - and I bought those crazy pricey circular needles yesterday along with some wool to make a scarf.
Plus other incidental fees, I couldn't stop myself from spending.
I wonder why people even bother making New Year's Resolutions, it's kind of like purposefully setting yourself up for failure and disappointment.
Like saying "Hey, I think I'm going to pick on something I suck at, and then act totally shocked and disbelieving when I can't manage to become awesome at it within a day or two".
Maybe next year I'll make some un-resolutions, like sucky things, I will embrace sucking at.
2 comments:
New Year's resolutions really are setting yourself up for failure. It's treated as a big deal, so people tend to be unrealistic about their resolutions to match the "big deal" mentality.
This year, I resolved to break this resolution.
If there is a real worthwhile resolution to make, make it at the time you think of it, rather than at New Year's.
I'm looking forward to getting advance screening tickets for your blanket show.
Baby steps, m'dear. You should know all about how to set realistic, attainable, blah-blah-blah goals ;).
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