The new pair of socks, the ones I'm calling "happy feet" are indeed very happy. They are so bright and cheerful that they inspire smiles. I'll want to wear my pants slightly short so people will see and ask questions. I really need to buy a pair of shoes that will better show off my hand-knit socks that will also be comfortable and stylish enough to wear to work...must think about this.
Now that I have all that out of the way I'd like to talk about how finishing makes me happy. There's something extremely motivating about "finishing" something. It's quite satisfying and makes me want to start something new. I like showing off what I've completed. The sense of accomplishment at finishing things is really quite nice.
I realized yesterday that I only have a couple of projects "in progress" right now. I have my black and white scarf that I've brought up to work on during lunch. It's one of those projects that I abandoned a while back because I was so bored with it... I realized on Friday that I really don't have that much left to do on it...finishing it will be a piece of cake...and then I don't know what I'm going to bring up to work on during lunch because the only other things I have in progress are a sweater and blanket and I don't really think either of those is appropriate lunch-time knitting. I'll have to give that some thought.
Because, if you notice, since I brought something else up here to work on during lunch, that means that I finally finished the cowl that I've been working on for mom's birthday. She has been quite patient in waiting on it, and I'll put it in the mail tomorrow. It's quite pretty all bunched up around a neck. I think she'll really enjoy it. And while that thing was driving me senseless with boredom while working on it, finishing it left me with a "hole" in my day...it left me wondering what I could find that would be easy enough to work on during lunch and still capture my attention enough to want to work on it everyday.
Finishing the cowl also brought to mind a couple of other things...how one round per day adds up. How when it's time to be finished with a project I'll just dig in and be done with it. How when I'm finished with a project that has been around for a while (so long that I'm sick of it), the finishing of it leaves me wistful...wondering why I'm missing it even though I couldn't wait for it to be over with. How completing things is so very satisfying that I immediately cast on a new project. How using my creations (or seeing other people use them) is probably the most satisfying thing around. How much I cherish my creation time and enjoy being able to make things.
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