Serial Knitting Monogamy

There haven’t been many studies done on people who stutter, so I often wonder whether my speech-related quirks are shared by other stutterers. One of those quirks is that I can’t do a whole lot of other things while I’m having a conversation. Speaking (especially on the phone) often requires an immense amount of concentration, so other activities tend to come to a grinding halt when I have to speak. I am particularly confounded by cell phones. Walk and talk on the phone at the same time? Give me a break.

This means that I do things one at a time, and my single-minded approach extends to other parts of my life; I finish one book before I start another one; I don’t start a new piece of writing until the one I’m working on is done; and I don’t knit more than one project at the same time.

For some freakish reason, that last item has gone out the window this month. I couldn’t really tell you why, but at least part of the reason has to do with this yarn:

Are you drooling, yarn porn fiends? Instead of telling you what it’s made of, I’m going to let the label speak for itself:

I’m not big on the specialty yarns, nor am I a fan of lace-weight yarn (its potential for driving me insane is considerable) but this is something really special. What does one knit with something that’s over fifty percent goat hair, with the rest coming from caterpillars? This!

Long-time readers will recognize this as the original Transcendent Project. I don’t ordinarily knit something just because I plain old want to——I usually have a recipient in mind——but I had a hankering to knit this scarf again, so here we are.

But that’s only one project! Project number two is a swatch of a Danica scarf which, silly me, I delivered to Article Pract today before taking a picture of it. I wasn’t planning on knitting one, but I was informed by the folks who work there that the best way to drum up interest in a knitting class is to have a swatch on the wall of what you’re going to teach. So, I whipped up one-third of a Danica, most of it on the way to and from work this week.

And the third project? It’s a that I’m knitting for . Here’s what I have so far:

Isn’t that coming along nicely? See, one of the problems with getting some traction as a knitting designer is that it limits the number of projects that you can talk about in your blog. But I’ll have more pictures of this one as soon as it shows up in , and I can get back to my serially monogamist ways.