No Bounds

My insanity knows no bounds. 

I have, as I do, started looking at my 2011 project list and have filled it to capacity and then some.  It will probably take me two years to do everything I want to do and it takes all of my considerable (or is that questionable) self-control not to start 2011 TO-DAY.  I want to start thinking about my new list NOW.  I did purchase some Rowan Drift yarn and some super-wash wool for 2011 projects just this past week.  Talk about getting ahead of the horse with my overfull cart.  The horse is thinking, “thank God it’s not me pushing that wagon!”  But “push” I must.

I am very close to finishing my 2010 project list.  Not everything will be done but the important stuff will be done!  Here is what I must finish for 2010:

• Bind 4 quilts, which I will do each of the next 4 Sundays
• Tie one more quilt and bind it, eep, I don’t know when
• Finish DH’s Sweater, back is done, front is 2/3rds done, then sleeves, 3 more weeks I think
• Prayer Shawl is at 92 rows, only 9,417 stitches left
• Dad’s socks, just need the foots and toes to be completed, yes, I said “foots”

I will have the Thanksgiving Holiday to work many things, God willing, like knitting miracles.

I have a list of odds and ends to take with me in the car on my Voodoo Lounge Tour of the Great South at Christmas.  This is the “Tour” I take every one to two years to visit with my friends and family that live back east, in the Alabama and Georgia area of the US.  The round trip is usually around 3,500 miles, I get to see everybody and give them their presents.

My odds and ends to take include a baby blanket for some friends of ours who are expecting their first, a couple of sock yarns I’d like to try in stockinette, of course and a headband that I am thinking of making for my next swap group swap. I have also added the few items that are not completed to the pile.  The baby blanket is kinda started already.  The yarn is something I didn’t think I’d like but it looks and feels great.  It is Stitch Nation Bamboo Ewe in Beach Glass. I’m going to put a crocheted edging on it like Havanaise on Ravelry.com:

(http://www.ravelry.com/projects/havanaise/baby-love-diagonal-baby-blanket)

I can’t decide if I want the edging in Eucalyptus or Mermaid. 

The 2011 List has categories.  I have become so much more sophisticated, lol.  My new categories are:

• Rowan Drift-I’ve picked 4 things I’d like to make from their book “Winter drift,” 3 for sure
• Knitting Machine-I have one of those knitting machines I bought several years ago and haven’t used yet, I have enough yarn set aside for 3 sweaters there, just to try it out
• Inventory Burn-selected projects each month to use up most of the yarn I’ve purchased
• Quilts-I still would like to make my sister a quilt and I’d like to make myself one too
• I have fabric for 5 men’s shirts that I would like to make for my DH, before summer
• Swap group items-5 headbands and maybe some scarves (I did just make my swapees sachets and mailed last week.  I worked each one using the Tunisian crochet technique)
• And Lastly (for now) there are 3 projects on my ravelry queue that I would like to make for myself.  I usually don’t make quilts or things for myself but 2011 is my year.

Does this sound like a lot?  You bet.  Just the way I like it.