Yeah, I've taken on a couple things that count as obligation knitting. I SAY I won't do this, but I'm too agreeable for my own good, and so I do. Well, two of them are probable not firm obligations, but anyway:
1. Scarf for the Red Scarf project. As the deadline for these is Dec. 15, I'm not sure if it's going to happen this year. I have a scarf not quite half knit, but I chose one of those knit-purl reversible patterns (it's here on the Wayback Machine - this was an old Knitlist offering, and I like it, and it's kind of sad it's not more widely known). I'm doing the first pattern listed there. (I probably COULD have done mistake-stitch rib instead, which is faster and makes a nice scarf, but, meh...I chose to do what I chose to do).
I worked on it some last night but it grows slowly. As I said, this one may not get done. But that's okay; I can probably find somewhere else to give it if I don't finish it by the deadline, or I can save it for next year.
2. Crocheted pony for a fellow Raveler. She wants one kind of like my Pinkie Pie (but a generic pony, not one of the show characters) as a decoration for her kid's room. I can start this soon and I have plenty of time - she wants it for her daughter's birthday in March, and I can usually knock one of those ponies out (ooh, that doesn't sound very good) in about a week if I work consistently on it. Or less, if I'm not busy during the days. I'm actually getting something in return out of this (yarn) and this is the one I most firmly promised to do, so this is the one I really do need to get done. I'm thinking if I don't start it earlier, this could be downtime-during-exam-week knitting; I have only a couple hours' commitment on campus each day of exam week.
3. A pair of fingerless mitts for a colleague. She saw the BonBon fingerless mitts (which I guess I never photographed....I made them over last Christmas break) and really liked them. And, as I made them out of a 100 g skein of sockyarn (and they take some 35-40 g), I have plenty of that yarn left. Actually, she kind of sidled up to me as I was leaving one day and asked me what she needed to "bribe" me with to get a pair of mitts like them. I kind of hemmed and hawed and said I'd see what I could do after the holidays. But. She's the advisor to a couple of our student groups, and she helps keep up the butterfly garden, and she teaches a class that none of the rest of us are good at/want to teach (the science remediation class), so I think she deserves at least a pair of mitts. Again, I can knock these out pretty fast - in fact, I might even be able to do them during downtime before exam week, and then I could wrap them up, and slip them in her mailbox. (Yes. I like that idea. Make the mitts and then just drop them off as a wrapped package shortly before I know she's going to be in, to surprise her.)
I don't do a LOT of knitting for others - once in a while, I'll make a gift for someone (the most recent being the baby hat) or something to send off for charity. But I tend mostly to be a somewhat "selfish" knitter. Not because I'm so inherently selfish, I think, but because I don't have that many people around me to give knitwear to, and I do tend to somewhat jealously guard what free time I have (I have plenty of projects I want to do for myself, even beyond what I could make for others).
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