It surprises me that given all the sweaters I have knitted over the years, and the number of sweaters piled on the shelves of my closet, that I could not find a sweater to wear today. It is not even that I don't have any appropriate sweaters, just that I don't have the sweater I want to wear TODAY.
I think I have the yarn for that sweater. I probably already have a pattern picked out. I probably have several patterns picked out and I probably have the appropriate yarns stashed. And truthfully, even if I started knitting today, it would not be on my back today. In fact by the time I finish the sweater in question, and I am envisioning a 3/4 or long sleeve cotton or cotton blend sweater with a casual weekend kind of feel, it will be too cold to wear it and I will be annoyed with myself yet again for knitting something I can't wear right away.
You know that is how sweaters end up on the UFO pile....I start them with great intentions but when they are near to being finished it is the wrong season to wear them so they get put aside and forgotten. When the right season rolls around again, and it always does, they remain forgotten because I am already dreaming of and working on new sweaters which exert a much stronger pull than the old mostly-finished sweater in the UFO drawer.
And so yet again I find myself with a closet filled with sweaters and no sweater to wear.
Does one ever catch up?
I don't think it's possible. I think no one (even with all of the time and a knitting machine) can knit fast enough to produce a sweater NOW.
Posted by: Gina | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 12:14 PM