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So, diets.....they suck huh?!

Apparently (psychologists say) if you can go for 21 days and 21 nights without doing something it means you've broken your habit. So my yarn diet started on the 1st Jan 2008. On the 19th January, I broke my resolution and bought a ball of yarn. The moral of this story is never try. ...No wait, I mean... just wait 2 days more.

However, despite this temporary lapse I think I'm actually doing quite well. Not only did I only walk out of the shop with just ONE ball of yarn, technically, if you count December 2007, I have actually gone 21 days + without buying yarn. Also added to this is the fact that I got the yarn for quite possibly the coolest project ever and I think a temporary lapse is allowed. (Like if you have one biscuit after a month of no cake and sweets).

I'm torn between mentioning what the project is now and saving it till it's finished and has piccys to go with it, but I think I'm going to hold out. (for those of you that know already, you'll have to wait). And the person that gave me the idea for that project has also added petrol to an already crazy flame, by giving me an even cooler project idea for when this is finished. (And I don't even have to buy more yarn ^_^)

In the mean time however I have progressed...not a lot on all the other projects. I figured out last night that it takes me about 2 hours to do 10 rows on Lilith. So I have about 120 rows to go which means that it will take me 24 more hours to complete it! I'm not really sure how cool that is, I thought it sounded better when I just worked it out as 2 weeks.

Ooh! While I'm here I thought I'd tell you about this new show that started last night on E4 (Freeview, Sky and Digital people :-P ). It's called 'Reaper' and basically revolves around one Sam Oliver, whose mum and dad sold his soul to the Devil. So the Devil basically uses Sam as a bounty hunter for all the souls that have managed to break out of Hell. The scary thing is the Devil is such a nice guy that you have to wonder what God's like.

Which reminds me of another show I used to watch called 'Bob, the Devil and God'. Why must they cancel the shows I love so much....?

Ok well time's ticking so gotta run, but thanks for reading!

Ugh, I'm so booooored!

I've been making this beaded scarf for what seems like forever and it's just not getting any longer. It's driving me crazy! I had to thread the beads on before I started, and it seems like the fact that I have to keep pushing them down on pretty much every single row is what's taking up most of the time. I'm slowly slipping into insanity. In fact, I may well be there because I'm still working on the frigging thing!

*deep breath*

Ok, so I decided to go on this yarn diet thing, which makes complete sense because I really need to use up the stash, but now I feel like I just want to cast on every single project I possibly can. I suspect this has something to do with the belief that it will make my stash disappear sooner if I finish everything sooner. The flaw in this plan is that by casting everything on in one go, it will actually take longer to finish anything because you'll be working on a million things at once!

You'll be pleased to kow this hasn't really stopped me though. Oh no, I'm currently working on:

-the second of a pair of fingerless mittens
-the second of a pair of socks
-my Lilith shawl
-the dreaded beaded scarf
-the beginnings of a baby blanket, made up of all the random scraps of DK i have lying around (I hate DK)

AND to top it all off, I feel I have recently been guilt tripped into needing to start a project which someone got me as a gift but haven't yet started making. (Your first mistake is buying for a specific pattern not pre-approved by me. What was the guarantee I'd ever like it??!!)

And, in a cruel twist of fate, one of my favourite online shops Purlescence will start selling yarn this month too. I suspect this is a test from the knitting gods to test my strength of knitting character.

"Well, I'm tempted, but I got a stash to burn, you hear me?!"

*slumps*

Well some small consolation is, my stash is one bulky skein shorter because I gave it away to a friend, along with my giant 15mm needles and my first knitting book so that they could learn to knit. (World Knitting Domination will be mine! Mwahahahaha! [and you thought that button to the left was just a webring link]).

Also I made a 'scat' which is like a hat with a scarf attached. (Imagine a beanie with earflaps. Now imagine the earflaps are reeeeeeally long. Voila, Scat). So my project finishing demon is slightly sedated by that.

...I think I've ranted a bit to much now, and I should really be thinking of sleep (hands up if you predict this will be the longest most boring week of the year so far), so dear reader, thanks for reading, hope you come back soon :-)

So 2008 is upon us, and once again I marvel at how time seems to fly by, yet drag all at the same time.

In true cliche fashion, I am starting the year with a resolution of sorts. My aim is to knit only from my stash and not buy any more until it is down to a resonable level. (Join the Burnin' Up the Stash 2008 group on Ravelry).  It's not that I have that much (in comparision to some people who have whole rooms dedicated to yarn), I just think I should get some of the intended projects I have planned out of the way before I get carried away. I think I just can't knit fast enough, because most of my stash does have a purpose, it's just taking a while to get there.

The only exception to this resolution is anything I bought in 2007 but haven't recieved yet (like the rest of my Hip Knits projects. What a mistake signing up to that!).

Okay, so here are the latest pics from my WIPs. I made myself a sock out of the Hempwol I got from the UK Stitch and Bitch Day. It worked up really quickly but I think I may have made it a bit too short. The pattern was written for American/Canadian shoe sizing and I think I worked out my size wrong. Oh well.

Ok so Christmas is over and everyone is being lazy in the anti-climax of Boxing Day (myself included). I have just come to report that my Christmas gifts appeared to be a success with all who received them, including the boot socks that I didn't think would fit the recipient (and weren't supposed to be a present as I'd made them in July!). I'm really quite happy about it too.

I also got some knitting goodies for some of my presents and I've been browsing the net, wondering what to make. I think I might make a throw which I saw in a magazine ages ago. And it also means I have less yarn to buy to finish it off when I've used my gift up.

The only problem is I won't be able to get the same dye lots. But if it's just a throw made up of random squares maybe it won't matter so much? I thought about making each square a different colour but I think it would just be too fussy then.

Well anyway my brain is going on too many tangents to write much more so thanks for reading, and hope you got lots of lovely goodies too!