My knitting has fallen victim to my new job. Not that I have
one of those exhausting jobs, but that my 9-5 is occupied and I can’t knit as
much as I would like to. Before I had dedicated times of knitting. Now, I knit
on 15-miniute breaks, while I’m stuck in traffic or any other moment I can
steal.
The problem with this is over the summer I started a number
of projects to wear once the weather changed. I had a sweater, a shawl and a
poncho on my needles at the same time. I thought I had enough time to finish
them all before now. I did manage to finish knitting two of them but I didn’t
block them, and according to my husband, they’re not finished until they’re
blocked.
This past Sunday was my wake-up call. When we left for
church, it was barely sixty degrees outside. And the building we meet in is
county-owned, so the thermostat is set until someone comes and turns the heat
on later this year. I nearly got hypothermia during the church service. I
needed the things I knitted but they weren’t blocked.
I realized the error of my ways and blocked all three
garments, in addition to an item I knit for a swap partner and a scarf my
husband knit. Right now, they are keeping my living room floor warm but soon,
they’ll keep me warm.
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