I know you’re shocked.  I am too…but I really do want to get back to regular blogging.  I think part of the problem is that I have been in kind of a funk lately (both knitting and otherwise).  I can trace the beginning of the knitting funk to Sock Wars.  Once it began I knit like a madwoman, even staying up the whole first night to finish my first pair.  As the game went on and the problems and discontent began, I found myself stuck in a place where I had to knit a pattern I was sick of (made 3 pair) for people I didn’t know and then didn’t even end up with a pair of socks for myself once it all ended.  It just wasn’t a fun experience.  Lesson learned but the damage was done.  I had already signed up for Socks of Death hoping it would go better and be more enjoyable.  I did end up with a lovely pair of socks that time but was still burnt out.  Add to that working on a pair of travel socks that should probably be frogged and some short socks for my sister’s birthday, I’d had it.  I wasn’t knitting nearly as much the entire summer all due to Sock Wars.

I seem to be emerging from at least the knitting funk at the moment, apparently spurred on by the fact that there are only 98 days left for Christmas knitting (and that I wanted to get a submission in for the winter Knitty).  Somehow that whole Project Sanity thing just didn’t stick with me like I’d hoped. 

I’m working on Ariann as a Christmas gift.  So far it’s a great television knitting project.  Some yarnovers and decreases to keep it interesting but in a pattern that is super easy to follow with hardly any counting.  Now I just have to figure out a good travel project for next week…new socks?  Can I handle it?  Can I get the socky love going again?