anti-bore-otics

I've been feeling under the weather for a bit, so knitting has been slow. It's frustrating because I really enjoy working on the mittens, but just don't have the mental stamina necessary to work on them for more than an hour or so at a time.



I do have to admit that one of the things keeping me from the mittens today has been working on a hat pattern for a friend. As you can see, I'm deliciously close to closing up that second mitten. But why work on that when I can sit in front of a computer and make charts in Excel? In fact, I'm so eager to start on the hat that I'll be tempted to swatch for it this evening instead of working on the mitten. She needs the hat more than I need my mittens. Plus, they'll probably be on nice, fat size 2 needles. Instant gratification knitting! (Yes, that is partially tongue in cheek.)

So that's my brief story for the week. I'm not sure if I'm going to blog about the hat before it reaches its destination, in case the recipient peeks her head in and doesn't want to have the surprise spoiled. (She knows she's getting the hat. She just doesn't know what species of hat it will be.) It's funny how I've ended up knitting so much for others this winter, even though not one iota of it is a holiday gift. But the mittens are all mine, and I'll be back when they're done.