Resolved

I’m breaking with long standing tradition and making a New Year’s resolution this year.  I resolve to finish my Autumn Splendor Cardigan in 2012.

Even if it kills me.  That steek might do me in.

A little history – I started this in 2004, in Donna Kay’s Fair Isle Design class.  So yes, I designed it.  I loved the process of bringing together the traditional fair isle motifs and the beautiful fall colors that were just emerging that September in New Hampshire.  I credit that class with pulling me out of my color box and forcing me to really play with color for the first time.  It was inspiring.  Of course, I love the knitting – fair isle is my favorite thing.  So why does it sit for nearly 8 years?  No real clue.  For a brief moment this morning, I thought I had the answer – I was missing a color.  Then I found it in another project, so no excuse there.  Perhaps its just a little daunting.

I’m pushing that aside, finding my place in it and moving forward, even if its a little at a time.  I will finish this thing by December 31 – which feels so blissfully far away right now.

To my local friends – I’m counting on you not just for the usual moral support and encouragement but for one of you to hand me a stiff drink and help me to a dark room after I cut that steek.