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Finishing Ph.D

This adventure does not require any contact with an institution of higher education, BTW.  When I say Ph.D. in this context I am discussing finishing Projects half Done.  And again it seems I have a few to do.

Remember those two Fiddlehead Mittens?  If not here's a quick reminder and another.  It seems I have two mittens completed, one with an off-white background and one in charcoal.  Both need the other completed.





There is a half done Ashton shawl in a denim colour that showed up here, that needs to be done within the month.


Ashton Shawl #3
And I have the second Badger mitten to complete.  It is not f~l~y~i~n~g off the needles as I had suggested it would just last week.  At Knit Nite on Thursday I skipped a row on the chart somehow and it has sit alone in the bag I carried it in all weekend long.  So what did I do?  I started something new that will be revealed later.

I am not the only knitter who suffers from unfinished projects and perhaps I am not the one with the most either.  All my knit buddies, my Mom and knit heroes are far better at starting something and seeing it through to the end.  But there's something which causes me to search out a new project once I know I have conquered the latest technique.  (Not great when you need to complete a pair!)  It is as if I am bored with something the minute I figure it out which is weird, really.  Pushing ones limits, doing something new requires a good deal of mental capacity (I should say it does for me).  It is not as relaxing as doing something one already knows all the tricks to do to accomplish it.

Perhaps it is that nothing else is challenging me right now.  I know how to cook and clean and walk and entertain myself on a daily basis.  But there is always something challenging about a new knitting project.  It has the thrill of the hunt, the excitement of conquering a task you weren't so sure you could, and the complete joy of having done it.

Whatever the motivation for starting something new, for the next few weeks I am going to control that urge to actually finish all the Ph.D. mentioned above.  Closure, or completing a task once started can also be motivating.  This is something for me to keep in the forefront of my mind as I knit on.  There's deadlines looming and I need to finish the Ph.D.

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