A Road Less Travelled

 Ever since Christmas I have been trying to be very responsible in choosing my craft projects. I knew I needed to finish up some ufo’s (Isn’t knitting language great? For the uninitiated UFO stands for UnFinished Object), and start working on birthday presents for the year so I could get them out of the way and have plenty of time to make Christmas presents. All very logical and responsible.

Sadly, logical and responsible are not my natural keyphrases when it comes to my crafts. Perhaps because it is the one area of my life where I don’t have to be logical and responsible. (This is part of the reason I finally realized that a home business relating to crafts is not for me. It sounded like such a natural fit for a long time–so logical even–but crafts don’t mix well with deadlines and obligations for me.) I think the only reason it works so well to make gifts for people is because I find patterns that make me go, “Ooooh, that’s the coolest thing! I want to make one! Who do I know that would want one of these?”

I have forced myself to impose some order on my crafts in the past, but this is only the result of ending up with half a dozen tiny orange baskets, several doilies, unfinished sets of coasters and the like, all of which were fun and exciting to make and things I would never actually use, and didn’t know anyone I could palm them off on…. er, that is to say, gift them to.

However, after a month and half of responsible knitting my wild side has broken out again. I couldn’t help myself. I have cast on and begun knitting a lizard scarf. I don’t think it’s actually supposed to be a lizard, but that’s what it looks like to me. A scarf that looks like a furry lizard. Isn’t that ghastly? And so much fun! Next week I will desperately search for a use for a furry lizard scarf. For now I merely knit in happiness.