Extreme Knitter

Everyone has a blog now days, so what's the challenge here?  Given the fact that I've had probably 3-5 blogs in the past few years where I've never managed to keep to one and maintain it (usually the idea and energy fizzles out after a few weeks...), shows how difficult it is for me to make a habit of something.  Blogging isn't the only habit that I've had difficulty keeping to.  In fact, almost everything I do, I seem to do it extremely well for about a month or two, then I forget about it, and go back to it after several months if not years...  This is one of the challenges I'm giving myself.  GET RID OF THE EXTREMENESS!  I am a total extremist.  Either I DON'T do anything for a few months, or I'm suddenly reading 10 books a month or, as I am doing in the past month, knitting frantically as though I would have nothing to wear if I were to stop knitting!  Balance is something I have extreme difficulty in maintaining, despite believing strongly that balance is the key to a healthy and happy life.

That said, I am very happy of everything I've completed in recent weeks...

This is not all, there was also one glove (the other one was finished about 18 months earlier), one capelet (which I have not had the energy to weave in the ends and block and take photo yet), and near completion is the lace ribbon scarf for my dear friend Ivy, a present I was meant to give her over a year ago!  I'm not a big fan of knitting scarves for my attention span don't seem to allow me to finish after the 100th row of knitting the same pattern.  I enjoy wearing scarves much more than I enjoy knitting the actual item, with the exception of knitting with super bulky wool because that will usually allow you to finish within the day!  However, I've told myself to suck it up and finish this scarf and the pattern is just toooo beautiful and finally after being more than half way done, I have memorised the pattern and no longer need to keep referring back to my notes...

I'm looking so forward to finishing this and giving it to my friend.  This makes me happy.