Today I finished Diana's log cabin blanket. Diana is a friend of my younger daughter and she is getting married next year. The blanket is a wedding gift. This is the first log cabin I have made using only 4 colours and it looks quite sophisticated. It has been finished in record time - usually I take a month to complete a throw of 20 squares with borders but I have spent more time than normal sitting around at home, hence the faster finish of the project.
The question is what next? To complete the stash buster which is more than half done? A complete new one in some of the new colours? A potential Christmas present one? Yikes - that is a thought- Christmas. It is October next week and I am usually well prepared for the festive season - but not this year. Much time has been taken over by wedding planning and recent months have been overtaken by illness. Perhaps a list is required and a plan. Last year was a year for scarves. I usually think that a year of socks would be a good idea but I never quite get round to that. I rather wish that I enjoyed knitting socks as much as I love knitting log cabin blankets but the sad fact is that I don't. I did want to attend a sock knitting class recently but it wasn't possible. I wonder what might help switch my pattern allegiance. Certainly not stock - I don't have quite as much sock yarn as yarn for log cabins - but it's not far off. Socks would be much easier to carry around in my bag - yet I have a mini log cabin on the go in my bag at the moment. I will just have to face the reality that I like the simplicity of the log cabin and don't really feel confident about socks - fear of failure, the unknown, the difficulty and, to be honest, my lack of patience.
