A New Project

How come a four-day week after a long weekend always feels longer than a normal week? We've had a couple of super cold days here, and the air in my apartment is so dry that I'm shocking myself every time I touch a light switch. I have two pots of water going on the stove to try and get some humidity, but it hasn't reduced the static yet.

After banging out a bunch of knitting last week, I've slowed down a lot this week. I'm mostly focusing on the scarf, since I need the needle it's on for the body of my green sweater, but I've reached the point in "long rectangle" where it's hard to get in a good groove and make significant progress. I'm well over halfway through the first of two balls, so it is coming along, just more slowly than the first foot or so.

Part of the reason knitting has slowed down so much is that I've picked up a big non-knitting project with a deadline! I did quite a bit of knitting for my friend's baby, but I knew since their pregnancy was announced that I also wanted to make a baby quilt. I found this cross stitch quilt kit at the secondhand crafts store back in the fall, with a beautiful pattern of sunflowers and bees. I put it in the quilting frame on Monday and started stitching, and while I wish it was going quicker, I've been able to stitch enough every day that my progress is definitely noticeable. 

Part of me imagines that I'll get this finished before the baby gets here, but the smarter, more realistic part of me realizes that this is a big project to finish in less than two months. It's fine, it's not like the baby will know if it wasn't finished by their birthday.