Yeah, the title is an inside joke that only my girlfriend would get, and even then I might have to explain it to her, because the jokes I make that I actually think are clever are usually inside jokes with myself. It is a lonely person who has inside jokes with herself. And yet, maybe she is the luckiest person of all. What am I talking about?
I've got maybe 3 more rows left on the ribbing of my Fitted Knits (*cough* Gryffindor *cough*) shrug, and now I'm really unmotivated to finish it. This always happens when I'm knitting big-ish projects. The very first sweater I ever knitted needed a neck for the longest time. It just sat in pieces under my bed while I putzed around NOT getting the double-pointed needles I needed to do the turtleneck. Of course, it was because I was a freshman in college and had no transportation to any craft store, and I was only just discovering the world of online shopping (I made my first eBay purchases that year!). I ended up deciding to split up the neckline and do them on straights...BIG MISTAKE, my friends. That was also the year I found out that I bound off too tightly. Also, the sweater itself ended up pretty fugly.
The next sweater I knitted was Stefanie Japel's Bad Penny from Knitty. I got some yarn off eBay and had to resize the entire pattern because the yarn was way thicker than the recommended yarn, which was fine because it knitted up quicker, but then with just the neckline ribbing left, I sort of ignored the sweater for six months. Seriously, I had it almost done around this time two years ago, and I let it sit until winter break. Then I finished it and gave it to my friend and it looked WONDERFUL on her.
So, if you're keeping track, that's one Good Sweater, one Awful Sweater.
The next sweater I knitted was Rogue. I finished all the pieces last summer, including the sleeves, and didn't seam it up for MONTHS. I finished the pieces in August...and then around the end of March (of THIS YEAR) I decided I was too lazy to seam up the sleeves, so I frogged them and re-knit them in the round, put off sewing them in for a few weeks, finally got off my ass and did it, and was done by the end of April (I had other projects I was working on in between). And that one turned out good too!
I don't know why I put off finishing sweaters; maybe it's because of that first awful sweater I made? I want to knit sweaters, but I think there's that fear that after all that knitting, it will turn out ugly, and all my work will have been for nothing. But I've got better odds than I thought, so maybe if I finish up this one TODAY, about two weeks after I started it, I'll break my knitting curse, hooray!
Oh, and as for the inside joke, whenever my girlfriend is playing some RPG or whatnot (Final Fantasy, etc), when she gets close to the end, say, right before the final boss, she STOPS PLAYING. For WEEKS. At first it is just because she is leveling up, but then after that I don't know what her excuse is. It took her practically a year to give back Final Fantasy X-2 (which she borrowed from me when we were seniors in high school...I didn't get around to playing it until my sophomore year in college, but I don't think it's because she took THAT long to give it back), and that game is NOT hard. If I can easily beat it, it is NOT hard. So there you go: metaphor explained.
I think this post was super long just so I could avoid a) finishing my shrug, or b) doing that 7-minute ab workout. Really, that's just seven of the longest minutes in my day, but I'll have ripped, sexy abs just in time to go back to school in landlocked St. Louis, with no beach that I know of. And this winter I'll knit 100 wool sweaters and be finished just in time for summer (I'm kidding; I'm allergic to wool).
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