Pulled the Lightning-Bolt sweater back out and added another 2" or so on the front. I've finished the first full pattern repeat of the center front motif.

Incidentally, ISO a picture of the sweater I could direct you to, I find that the only entries on Google for "lightning-bolt family sweater" (the name from IK) are entries in my blog. Hee.

As you've doubtless noticed, I am not the kind of person who can do one project exclusively until it's finished. (I can do that in rare cases - with things needed by a deadline - but I don't like it). I'm the same way with reading books, usually having 2 or 3 or more going at the same time. And I'm the same way with work-projects. I can only work on one thing for so long without going nuts. Through most of grad school, I took classes in addition to working on my thesis or dissertation so that I had some little, short-term goal project (like a journal article critique or a test to study for) to rally me through the longer-term goal.

I don't do well when my goal is far, far off in the distance. I prefer goals that I can actually see approaching. I think this is part of the reason for my fondness for smaller projects.