HELP! I’ve got Startitis again!!!!

I cast on for my new fall purse last night. I’m making it of Noro Kureyon in color #40

Isn’t this a beautiful colorway? I’ve finished to the botton of the bag and have done about 7 rounds toward the sides of it of a total 64 rounds!

I started this in part because I have been working on a pair of socks and on a shawl, both of which use sport weight yarn and it was starting to bother my hands . . . I need to have something thicker to change to from time to time . . . plus both of these projects have been slow going so having something that should go up quick to work on in between helps! I need instant gradification projects!!!

Actually, at the rate I’m going this will be my one and only new thing I’ll have knit for myself for the Fall. Speaking of Fall, where has the summer gone to? I can’t believe there are only 10 days until the Labor Day weekend! It seems like June was just yesterday! And looking at my calendar it seems we have things planned fore every weekend right into mid-September. When did life get so busy? And how and I suppose to knit 20+ more items between now and late December if all my time is taken with other activities? I think perhaps its time to reassess my goals for the Fall? Oh, and in early October we leave for Italy for 2 1/2 weeks . . . . hmm, definately time to reassess my knitting plans for the holidays!

I did get a couple of sets of Bryspun needles (DPNs) for the trip so I should, hopefully, be able to knit on the flight over and the flight back. That gives me almost 18 hours of knitting time . . . plus there are bound to be times where we have to wait for trains or buses while there . . . and times when we just sit in a cafe somewhere . . . . perhaps I can get 2 pairs of socks done on the trip? Does that seem realisitic? And somehow, between now and when we leave, I need to finish 2 shawls for DH’s Aunts who live there. I’m about 1/4 done with the first one, but as I haven’t done this pattern or used this yarn before that is only a guess, I just don’t know how its going to come out or what I’ll have to do to it to get it to look right. . . . perhaps that is another project that should be reconsidered? Nice as it would be to give them shawls, they aren’t expecting it and have no idea that I was planning anything . . . . so they won’t miss them if I don’t have them done. And I could always do some after the holidays and mail them over . . . . Maybe we’ll see how far I get in the next week or so and decide from there?

So I just rearranged my holiday knitting list into 3 categories: Done (4 items) Must do (8 items) and Would be Nice (8 items). In addition to that list, one of the Must Do items starts with dyeing roving and spinning the yarn (as Mom’s B-day gift) to make her shawl. They dyeing will be done when we do our dyeing workshop, early September, which will just leave the spinning . . .

Hmm, in light of all this, the last thing I should be doing is working on a bag for myself! Oh, well, since its started I might as well dabble at it in between the others . . . .

Now that I’ve bored you with all this . . . off to do some filing!