A good start

I am so good at starting...
I like a good beginning...
I get carried away easily...
There's nothing quite like starting a new project, is there? I know. I have UFOs to show for it. That's why I keep trying to get to grips with them all by making lists and showing photos at the beginning of the year and make plans to finish them all. I know I will, eventually, but I thrive on having different things on the go at the sametime. And there are always new things to try, new patterns that are so tempting, and why resist? We all know I need an excuse to buy fabric, and if you make stuff you get to buy more, right? In case you run out...

And yet I have focused mainly on quilting on this blog. I don't know why I rarely mention my knitting projects. It might just be because they take so long that I rarely have any finishes to show. I used to knit a lot in my teens and during my student years. I was rarely seen without a piece of knitting in my hands back then. But then I discovered quilting, and I lived and breathed quilting for years and years. I didn't knit anything at all. In fact, it was blogging and the availability of great patterns from sites like Knitty and Ravelry that lured me back in. Gorgeous yarn from Noro and various hand dyed wool tempted me no end, and before I knew it, I was a knitter again.
Now, if you have a peek in my little knitting nook on Ravelry you will see that I have several projects on the go. Mainly scarves and wraps, and I really need to focus on finishing them one by one like I have been doing with my quilting UFOs.

So what do I do? I fall head over heels in love with yet another pattern and before I know it the yarn is ordered and on it's way, along with some other skeins of lovely Madelinetosh Merino Light - it would be a waste of postage to order just the two skeins of DK, after all...
Oh, I'm going to have such fun knitting this lovely cowl in lovely shades of red and pink - just right for February, and there is more cold weather coming our way, I've heard, so it will come in very handy once it's done.
And since one can't focus on just the one craft, I also had to join the xandplusalong - it's no good just focusing on getting things finished when I'm such a great starter, is there?

EQ mock-up, not actual stitched blocks!