It started off innocently enough. After completing and sending the baby projects (the
Green Lantern Baby Blanket and
Converse Style Booties), I didn't have anything particular to move onto. I wonder what kind of hell I put my boyfriend through when I don't have something on my needles. After he gets home and wants to relax by playing a video game, I'm there sitting next to him twitching, fidgeting, restlessly playing with my knitting needles, crochet hooks and whatever yarn is in the caddy next to the couch. This only lasts for about ten minutes. By that time I can't stand it any longer and I'm trolling the Ravelry website looking for some new project to leap out at me. Still, he doesn't get any peace. It doesn't take me much time to get updated on all of the recently added patterns, and then the whining starts, "aaaahhhh! I don't have any projects! What should I make?" Stoically, he makes nice suggestions which I usually shoot down like skeet. The good news is that he'll usually say something that gets me at least started in a direction which leads to a new sort of annoyance. Once I've settled on a pattern I become consumed with working on it. Sitting next to him, I tend to count under my breath, reach over to click my row counter, require the light on for pattern reading, and all other sorts of obnoxious things.
Recently, when I began my itchy-no-project routine, he pointed out that here in Chicago winter is ever so slightly different than it is in Southern California and I might want some gloves to wear. In fact I think he said I -WILL- want gloves. Oh, and maybe he said need, not want. Onto Ravelry, searching, and searching, and even more searching; not finding anything that blows my skirt up. Then I caught sight of
Vancouver Fog Fingerless Gloves on orangellous blog. Sure they wouldn't cover my fingers, but just look at those sexy cables! I quickly dove into my yarn stash, and casted on. All too soon I finished my first pair of Vancouver Fog Fingerless gloves, with no intention of keeping them for myself. At that point I sighed and thought about my lack of projects. Silly me. As of yesterday I finished my fourth set; though I probably blather about the other three in a different post.
Recently, when I began my itchy-no-project routine, he pointed out that here in Chicago winter is ever so slightly different than it is in Southern California and I might want some gloves to wear. In fact I think he said I -WILL- want gloves. Oh, and maybe he said need, not want. Onto Ravelry, searching, and searching, and even more searching; not finding anything that blows my skirt up. Then I caught sight of Vancouver Fog Fingerless Gloves on orangellous blog. Sure they wouldn't cover my fingers, but just look at those sexy cables! I quickly dove into my yarn stash, and casted on. All too soon I finished my first pair of Vancouver Fog Fingerless gloves, with no intention of keeping them for myself. At that point I sighed and thought about my lack of projects. Silly me. As of yesterday I finished my fourth set; though I probably blather about the other three in a different post.
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