Sunday, October 23, 2011

Startitis again

Startitis has hit me again.  I want to start everything except of course exercise.  I want to use all of my new Wollmeise yarn and now that I am finally reading Knitting Rules, I am inspired to make hats.  All of a sudden I want to make hats for everyone for Christmas.  I have 7 WIPs, which can't be true.  I am not actually working on all 7 at the moment, but they haven't become UFOs just yet.  Plus, I have 13 UFOs.  20 items in progress! 

I am mostly  focused on the Hitchhiker.  My goal is to end up with 42 teeth.  I currently have 32, almost there.  Of course each row is getting longer and longer.  This is the first time that I have used Wollmeise and I love it.  Now I want more. 

With my unorganized self, I have the 7 WIPs sitting next to me in the living room, but I don't have enough project bags for all of them and so yarn is getting a little tangled and messy.  I really need to get organized.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Rewards

I have finally come up with a plan that I think will help with many things. I want to change my self rewards from food, stop my impulse buying, and work on my Weight Watchers plan. So I came up with a tracker to keep track of certain goals. I got this idea from watching the Sock Bunny Knit and Fit podcast. After I have completed 30 days of exercise I will be able to purchase some Wollmeise yarn, after 30 days of tracking food I will be able to purchase a project bag, and after reaching the 10% goal a new spindle. I will come up with different things for different goals. So far this is keeping me on track for tracking food. I have printed the tracker so that I can look at it which helps.

The only trouble is that I haven't started the exercise part. I don't know why I have such an issue with that.

Works in Progress:
Ever since I finished Camp Loopy I have been wanting to finish projects. I touched a few of my hibernated projects. I touched my Noro felted bag, a cabled scarf, and Oliver's baby sweater. I also started and finished a scarf.

Before I started the above reward tracking, I bought some Wollmeise yarn and started a Hitchhiker. I had purchased some before, but haven't used it yet. Now that I have been knitting with it, I want more. So that is why I assigned it as the reward for exercising.

Future Projects:
I want to start many things, but I am trying to limit myself otherwise I will end up with a million UFOs. A citron KAL is starting next week, Sock Bunny is doing a doily CAL/KAL, and my friend showed me a few patterns like LazyKaty.

Finished Objects:
I finished a few of my old projects that I started a few years ago: a baby hat and a crochet afghan.