So, here's the start of the finished stuff:



This is my version of Clapotis from the fall '04 Knitty. I used an Emu dk superwash wool that I bought at Elann for another purpose and then didn't use for that. It wasn't, in retrospect, the ideal yarn - it's not as soft as I'd have liked, and it was hard to get the stitches to drop (in other words, running down the ladders was more work than fun). I made it a bit bigger and longer than the specifications because I figured I'd be more likely to use it as a shawl than I would as a scarf. Still, it is surprisingly warm. And I still love the colors.

Other than that, I think I'm in a small knitting slump. Didn't knit after I finished Clapotis, didn't knit on the train coming back (read instead), and last night, looked at all my sundry projects and felt kind of "meh." Thought about starting something new and felt kind of "meh." (I did wind up working on the quilt that's in the frame, so at least I know I'm not getting sick, I do have the energy to work on something). I don't know if it's that I knit so much over break, or if I raced to finish Clapotis, or if I was doing a lot of knitting while processing the whole friend's heart attack-cousin's suicide-dad's illness stuff and so I'm kind of turned off of it now. It does worry me a bit that I can't get excited about even the projects that I *wasn't* working on during that time, like the Landscapes scarf that I didn't even carry with me over break.

I've decided not to worry too MUCH, and to use the time I don't feel like knitting to shift over to quilting more again. I think tonight - if I have time between/after meetings - I'm going to work on the bindings for the two lap-sized quilts I've got quilted but not finished. And I'm thinking again about beginning a quilt - maybe the blue and gold "Candlelight" pattern I've been slowly collecting fabrics for over the past year.

Oh, and here's the thought of the day, courtesy of my refrigerator: