You know how sometimes you just knit along, fingers flying, hardly looking at your knitting and it just seems you can do no wrong? Darn, you have mad skills, you think. Yeah, I'm not having that particular experience right now. I've been working along on my "Sookie's Morning After Scarflet" and was feeling really proud of myself. I'd been running a lifeline every 12 rows, but never needed them. I even worked on this scarf while taking really good pain killers after surgery 10 days ago. Yes, I knitted lace while on prescription narcotics. Oh, yeah, I was feeling invincible.
And then something happened. For the last 2 days, I've knit and ripped the same 6 row repeat (though admittedly I rarely get past the second row) at least a dozen times. No medication, no distractions, TV off, no music, no telephone. And no progress. Thank goodness I didn't get smug while knitting under the influence and stop putting in lifelines. Maybe I would knit this better after a cocktail? I'm willing to try anything to get my mojo back. If you happen to run into it, could you send it back home? I miss it....
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.... the tough do some finish work or other project that doesn't require knitting needles. While my knitting mojo is apparently on an unscheduled leave of absence, I still have LOTS to do on almost-finished projects for the book. Like a lot of knitters I know, I get about 95% done with a project and then leave it for what seems like forever before I finally get around to doing the finishing work, even if it's just 10 minutes of seaming. I don't know why, since it never takes as long as I think it will, but I just can't seem to stop dragging my feet. I have the same problem paying my household bills every month -- it takes 10 minutes online but I have the worst time making myself sit down to do it. Ditto folding the clean laundry. And unloading the dishwasher. Oh well, I've decided it's just one of my charming quirks.
So while I await the return of my missing mojo, I'm finishing up some of those last details. Here's a little peek at my very cute, if I do say so myself, Magnolia Tea Cozy. Felted flowers, embroidered and appliqued felt leaves and bead embellished needlefelting that looks like birthday cake icing swirls. Mmm, birthday cake is my all-time-favorite breakfast. But I digress. The tea cozy is such a great project and fun and girly and elegant and and practical and oh-so-Southern. And it's completely finished. Hmmmm..... maybe my mojo needs to stay gone for awhile.
