The January Effect

Time again to think about the coming year and all the great patterns and yarn there are to knit out out in the world. For some reason, and I really can't say why, January makes me want to plan.  I call this "The January Effect."

Even as a fairly new knitter, I can grasp with my rational mind how planning and knitting do not co-exist on the same plane.  This is plain to anyone who understands the difference between the creative and the organized.  I understand that some people are both creative and organized and frankly, I can be one or the other but not both at once. 

So this year, I've resisted.  I do know there will be Christmas to plan at some point, but I did not sit down and write it all out...not yet.  And I guess it's kinda hard to think about all the new stuff and plan it out when my 2011 list of "big" projects looms large. So here's the old list, the 2011 list that now becomes the 2012 list that I refuse to write, except here it is (I just said that!):

11 Joseph's Sweater:

10 Country Weekend Sweater:

9 Big Cable Wrap:

8 Mixed Media Sweater:

7 Paton's 4-strand blanket: 

6 Black-Jack Socks:

5 Bourbon Sweater:

4 Water Color Shawl:

3 Sweet Shawl (this is going to need a little re-work, I think the last few rows look wrong, drat!):

2 Olympia Shawl (this was taken during a severe corrective action, over 900 stitches had to be removed and re-knitted):

1 The Comfort Shawl (just one more skein to finish this!):