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| Hats 13 - 17 out of 52 |
It's week 13 and my current hat count is 17 out of 52 finished and the 18th hat is on the needles. I'd hoped to get a few more hats knit this month but... My diagonal striped blanket has been receiving most of my attention.
I'm a little, tiny bit worried about meeting the 52 hats knit in a year goal although I know it's way too early to seriously panic. It's just that work will be going full time soon and full time means 60 - 70 hours a week. And instead of the park closing after Halloween, this year's season lasts through December 30th. In other words, my knitting time is about to be Greatly reduced. I'd been on a pretty good schedule of starting a hat on Monday & finishing it by Thursday without much effort but March.... March's hats seemed to drag on and I had to consciously force myself to work on them.
The hat knitting is dragging because all I want to do is knit on the blanket. It's such a mindless, relaxing project, I change yarns constantly, and I'm making a pretty good dent in the scrap yarn pile. With all that going for it, I'm finding it extremely difficult to put down the blanket and pick up a hat.
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| Hat Tracker |
But, like I said, I'm not too terribly worried. I made myself a handy tracker and I get to color in a box each time I finish a hat. I do love to color in boxes so I'm still motivated. And no, the box colors have no meaning. I've just been trying to use up some of the 40-gazillion pens that I have laying around. "Finishing" a pen (using it until the ink runs dry) is another weird obsession of mine.
Okay, you folks know Way too much about me!
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The progress chart is a great idea - a visual reminder and a quick way to check progress. Great fun to see the hats.
ReplyDeleteThanks! The tracker really isn't exactly blog mention worthy but it does help keep me motivated.
DeleteOMG .... I thought I was the ONLY one that liked using things up (pens, yarn, etc...)
ReplyDeleteThe hats looks great.
LOL, I get THE biggest kick out of 'finishing' things - pens, tubes of toothpaste, scraping the very last bit out of the peanut butter jar... It's really... unnatural. :)
DeleteHats are fast and blankets are slow, but I like both!! Love your progress chart.
ReplyDeleteI'd envisioned the blanket taking me years but as long as I don't run out of yarn (cough, cough) I may finish it in only a few months. :)
DeleteI have some of the same worries about the hat challenge, but keep telling myself I started this because I thought it would be fun. It's not a job I took or a commitment to someone else. If it's not fun anymore because it's stressing me out I can easily give up.
ReplyDeleteI'm not convincing myself yet (I really want to knit all those hats), but it's true...
Love the chart. I was considering something similar, but the thought of actually seeing that I'm not even near the end of the challenge stressed me out too ;-)
Oddly, seeing all the blanks on the tracker doesn't bother me. The fact that week 14 on the calendar is ending and I still only have 17 blocks colored in ... is a different matter. Yikes!
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