Two days left before school starts. I’m guessing that at least one of the girls will be traveling to school on the first day with last year’s backpack. My (hopefully) realistic goal is to have them both done by next Monday. Abigail’s will need to be blocked to be finished “properly”. Olivia’s needs many things, but while I was glancing through Knit one, Felt too at Barnes & Noble a couple nights ago, I read some interesting stuff on how to fix a felted project gone wrong, so I’m thinking there’s hope. Plus, I had a good friend over Saturday night and she really liked it. That was encouraging.

I’m feeling the need to knit something for myself. I’m not sure what yet. There have been many, many “projects of my desire” discussed here recently, so there is a lot to choose from. There are a few projects I have waiting to be finished still, and I will do them. I’m just declaring that I would like my next project to be for me. I think that, more importantly, I would like my next project to be something I can knit without any stress attached. No deadlines. No “kind soul who was willing to purchase yarn so I could knit something beautiful” waiting for the finished object to arrive. Nothing hanging over me. Yes, that’s what I want. I’ve been knitting birthday gifts, school backpacks, the sweater for my mom that I’d like to get to her while the season is still right….. I need an experiment in frivolity. The highly practical side of me has been winning recently, and I’m desperate to fight back.

So, the flap, the flap, tell me about the flap!

Okay, I think I’m almost done. I’ve been thinking that for awhile, and yet, here I remain, knitting the flap. Seriously though, I am getting close. I have to be. For many reasons, I have to be. Here’s a picture, since I can’t think of anything else to say that isn’t begging and pleading with the Powers That Be to let me be done knitting this flap.

I’ve begun weaving ends in my down time. There are many ends (that is the consequence of stripes, you know), and due to the nature of this stitch (which I still like after all this time), it is going to take a very long time. Right, and the first day of school is Wednesday. I need a massage.