Last year, I realized I had started on some holiday patterns too late. I had all of my sketches done, the knitting roughed out on paper. It was early October 2007 and I would have had time to get them done except for the fact that in mid-October I flew to Athens, Georgia to sign a lease on a house (with a landlady I could not recommend to my worst enemy) and visit my mom in Florida for the rest of the weekend. I didn't bring my knitting because I really didn't want the airlines to take my knitting needles.
My lease in NJ was up on the 31st of October (which ruined my Halloween, really.) and all I had knit up was a Christmas tree. He was cute, but kinda lonely. I moved into my parents house in NJ for part of November and ended up helping my dad with an estate sale so the house would be nice and empty to go on the market. And I will never do an estate sale again. Everyone wanted something for nothing, broke things, stole things. I'd rather give the stuff away than deal with that again. I did, however, manage to knit up a Santa between the estate sale and Thanksgiving, but unlike the Christmas tree, Santa never made it into the felting jacuzzi.
When I finally arrived in Athens, four days later my cow was featured on Grumperina's blog and I hadn't even gotten the cable hooked up. Santa and the Christmas tree were put in the lonely box of unfinished things while I scurried to fill orders and make more cow kits.
This year, I thought I had enough time to get some patterns done. In fact, I almost finished up a jack-o-lantern, a witch, a ghost and a piece of candy corn. They're actually felted and just waiting on faces. And now I'm wondering if it's too late to finish up my thanksgiving ones. I still need to make three hats, two collars, one beak and one body before I put them in the felting jacuzzi or if I should continue on with my Christmassy and wintery ones and put the turkey day ones in the lonely box of unfinished things until next year.
