I'm so bad at this! I make lists, and I write down my #1 priority, #2, #3 and so on, and I will almost always start at the bottom of the list, with the lowest priority item. I don't understand why, and it frustrates me no end. I think I have it in mind that I'll just clear up these little odds and ends and then the field will be clear for the #1 priority. As if!
Because you know what? The thing that you work on is the thing that gets done! And the field never does get cleared off. There are always new things to tempt and tantalize me. And then there's that bit about "expressed preferences," which I interpret to mean that you can tell a lot about what you really want to work on by what you actually DO work on. Kind of amazing ;).
So what does this all have to do with lace, you might ask? Well, as I think I said a few entries back, the thing that I want to prioritize is a shawl for my mother that I've had in the back of my head for at least two years now. Unfortunately, in the back of my head isn't on my needles!
I made a mental compromise that I would "quickly" knit up the Gammelrosa Bladmønstret Duk shawl, and do the planning on my mother's shawl on the side. But in the interim since I posted that, and showed everyone the pretty cone of yarn I intend to use, I've instead been furiously knitting a pair of (non-lace) socks, finishing up older projects, and thinking about the shawl for my mother. I also keep thinking about how I wanted to prioritize this project, and how I feel guilty that I haven't started it yet. I'd like to have it completed for her birthday in November.
And the cone of yarn that I have in mind for the Gammelrosa Bladmønstret Duk just sits there, looking pretty, but not really enticing me. I think that should tell me something ;)
Posted by Shelda at June 16, 2003 12:29 PM