Only 3 projects in almost 7 months, I should be ashamed of myself. I have plenty of yarn, plenty of patterns at my finger tips and plenty of excuses as to why I haven’t bothered to do more.

I vowed I wouldn’t be like my Mother, starting projects and then casting them aside and forgetting about them but here I am having uncovered a bag containing various bits of a cardigan that I procrastinated over and then tossed aside without sewing it up. Looking through it I realised it’s been almost a year since I started it, I was determined to have it finished in 2 weeks and I wasn’t far off it, well the knitting aspect anyway.

I’d considered knitting Juno Regina from Knitty a while ago and then various other things came up and I never got round to it, I came across it again while I was browsing through Ravelry and decided I’d read through the pattern (to make sure it wasn’t too complicated for me) but I seem completely incapable of doing anything remotely lacy. Why don’t my YO ever look like they’re intentional? Where are the nice, perfectly rounded little holes the pattern calls for when I use them?

I can’t help but think I’m destined for a life of boring old garter stitch scarves. It doesn’t help when you see the hundreds of beautiful FO’s on Ravelry created by happy knitters who confess they’ve “only been doing this a few months.” I can’t help but think ‘bitches’.