Argh. Some things, as you draw near the end, seem to stretch out and take longer and longer (I remember feeling that with my dissertation).

It feels that way with the current Clapotis.



It's the new Neverending Project of Neverendingness.

I completely pooped out on it around 8:30 last night, couldn't keep going. (I think there are four repeats left to drop and ladder the stitches for). Part of the problem is the laddering - which is more frequent as you approach the end - is slow with this yarn. It has a tiny thread of mohair wrapped around the shiny slippery ribbon yarn - and the mohair grabs on and you have to kind of use your thumbnail to help it ladder, and it takes a while.

And here's where my crazy hyper-responsibility and super-conscientiousness kind of works against me: I was actually getting all set to apologize to you lot. Because I didn't finish the shawl and didn't have a nice shiny finished picture to show you. Because, you know, the people-pleasing part of me is screaming, "But you might lose readers if you never ever show anything finished!"

At any rate, if I had finished it, there would be no "action shot" of me wearing it anyway, because by the time I would have finished, my hair was all frizzy and bad (I had to take the barrette out of it; it was pulling on the hair and it's super humid here) and I wasn't wearing clothes that would match with the shawl anyway.

But it's alternatively funny and sad (I think) that I felt pushed to apologize for not finishing the shawl and having a finished-object picture to post here.