SP12 Question of the Week #10

What Olympic event would best describe your knitting/knitting style?

I am a knitting decathlete! I don't say this because I am good at 10 different kinds of projects, but because I am in the midst and/or about to try a bunch of different projects.

--I am making a garment. I have just a few more rows until I finish the second sleeve. The challenge for me will be putting all the parts together into something wearable.

--I am making a scarf. This is likely to be a Christmas present for my mom so there's no hurry. I have made this same scarf twice recently and it's quite easy and the yarn is beautiful to work with.

--I am making washcloths for a friend's gift.

--I am about to swatch for another garment.

--Socks are at the top of my learn-to-do list.

--I was looking at the calendar yesterday and realizing I have a vacation coming up in one month. Then I was driving home and my Clapotis was in the passenger seat. I started to think: I could stop by the yarn store tomorrow (which is now today) at lunch, get some yarn, and start a new Clapotis on Wednesday evening. I could get it done in time for use on the plane! Then reality struck me. I am not a fast knitter. I truly want to finish the first garment and I think the second one will go rather quickly. I've got to finish the washcloths. The first Clapotis took over a month to knit and it was pretty much all that I worked on. It's not going to happen.

Other people might call all this jumping around indecisiveness or scatter-brainedness (if that's not a real word, it should be). I prefer to think of it as training for the knitting decathlon.