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I am still slugging away on everything that is currently on the needles. I know that a lot of people talk about having “startitis”, but for me it’s more of a case of getting bored with knitting something by the time I am almost through with it. The feeling of accomplishment once something is off of my needles is spectacular, but it doesn’t feel so good when you’re nearing the last half mile and looking for the next fix.

There are so many projects that I want to start on, yet I hate having too many things going at once. Once I finish the Jaywalkers (which are nearly at the toe of the second sock!) and my Topsfield fair knitting (which is the Tongue River Farm socks and the lengthening of my Swallowtail Shawl), I will have to focus on the baby knitting for my friend Carmen (that includes finishing up the Baby Bell Bottoms and making a Baby Surprise Jacket). That is the current focus of my knitting efforts, and I am not sure that I am loving it. Don’t get me wrong, I love knitting, but I feel like aside from the Jaywalkers all the other projects I have on the go are things I feel I have to knit in some way or another.

And this is where Ravelry comes in. There is seriously so many fantastic things on this site! I have managed to keep my “queue” quite small (only 15 projects on there at the moment), but it makes me want to knit things that aren’t… well, what I am knitting right now! For instance, Knitscene came out with a pattern from Lisa Shroyer. It’s fantastic. And I am hyper linking an image here, forgive me the moralists of the internets, but I consider this some free advertising for Interweave.

It’s beaaauuuuuuuuuuutiful. I really, really, really want to wear this. Like, now. But I can’t. I must wait and knit things that are not this absolutely gorgeous sweater.

I suppose I should be glad that patterns like are out there, but it’s like being in a bakery when you’re on a diet. Ravelry is just plain old TEMPTING. The worst part is that I actually have the yarn I want to use for this pattern in my stash. In my stash, people! And yet, I need to continue working on things that are not piquing my interest like this new, shiny, pretty sweater. Of course, once I actually get around to casting on for this sweater I will be looking at something else to take the doldrums away. Ahhh, my knitting ADD at its finest.

It’s hard to balance a need to not have too many projects on the needles along with the need to cast on for MORE, MORE, MORE!