shirt is ripping because boobs are too big

The things people will Google. I wonder how disappointed they were when they found out this was a "knitting" blog. Whoever "they" are.

Anyway.

Celeste and I were taking a walk with Felix the Wonder Dog and discussing goals yesterday. She was talking about how she had met all the goals she had set for herself and so it was time for new goals, because this could not be all that life was about. I had to agree with her. Life is good, but surely there is more to it than just getting by with living.

Therefore, we decided to go about setting goals for ourselves to accomplish. She’s going to try to find a venue for her artwork to have a solo show. She makes amazing art. Her paintings are amazing and awesome and not well received in a mostly conservative state despite our friends with more liberal leanings. Therefore, she’s going to be looking for venues in other states. We were discussing Atlanta as an option. (HA HA! Celeste, I put this out on the internets, now you really have to do it. Wheee!)

Anyway, as for me, Celeste has been after me for awhile now to have my own show with my knitting. I’m thinking this needs to be my new goal. I have ideas in my head as to what I want to show, but I’m not ready to share them just yet.

This got me thinking about my knitting and why I knit and for whom I’ll knit. I found these truths to be self-evident: Apparently, I’ll knit for just about anyone and I prefer accessories to large project knitting.

This means that while I might once in a blue moon knit a sweater, it’ll take me at least a minimum of two years to do it and most of the two years will be spent bitching about the sweater where as the actual knitting time will be something like one month. I know. The logic is …. well, lacking. I’m interesting in knitting up some lace, but it’ll probably be a scarf as I don’t wear shawls and, well, they’re kinda big. And you can forget blankets and afghans altogether. Not. Gonna. Happen.

I love the accessories. I’m not ashamed of my love of the accessories. I love the process of knitting, but I also love the finished product. It’s a win-win with the accessory knitting because your projects are finished quickly. I’m not saying I’ll never knit a sweater, because I have, and I still have one on the needles that I might finish before 2050. I just prefer the quick and easy of the accessories. Plus, you can do it all with accessories: lace, fair aisle, intarsia, cables…you just don’t have to do as much of it. It never gets boring.

Let me also say this: Lately it seems like I’m knitting for way too many other people. Mostly friends, but I’m such a sucker for them. They’ll ask me to make them something and my immediate response is "Sure! What do you want?" This has got to change because it is seriously cutting into Me Time. I started knitting to be selfish and do something just for myself in
the first place. What in the hell happened to that? Damnit, I’m gonna
be selfish from now on and just knit what I want to knit….just as
soon as finish these last couple of promised knits.

From now on, I’m not knitting for anyone but myself and two other very select people. They know who they are. Wait, let me amend that statement. Unless it’s a commission piece, I’m not knitting for other people outside of the two Chosen Ones and myself.

Let’s see how long that lasts.

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