Last Fall, I was obsessed with skulls. We had only been living in SD a short time and, with our close proximity to Mexico, had already been inundated with Day of the Dead images and paraphernalia. I really wanted to knit some Day of the Dead themed mittens for Kristin for Christmas. I don't normally knit Christmas presents for my friends, but she had designed the banner for my shop and deserved something special. Besides, she digs skulls. Now there are a lot of skull patterns out there, but nothing that really did it for me. That's when I had a brilliant idea...I'll design my own skull pattern! I thought I was a genius. I would design the pattern, knit the sample and release it into the world right before Halloween (it was only a few weeks away). Ha! Now it's July and I'm still working on that mitten pattern. In the meantime, I started a spin-off arm warmer pattern. I figured that the arm warmers would be a faster knit and I wouldn't have to worry about the fiddly thumb. Besides, Kristin likes arm warmers (right?). I didn't meet the Christmas deadline either. There was more to this designing thing than I thought.
Then things got busy. I started a new job and a line of photography props. I was so busy that I hardly thought about those balls of black and white yarn languishing at the bottom of my stash. That is, until I booked my flight to Toronto for a summer visit. I had a new deadline: June 20th. I decided that the only way to get these done was to employ all of the goal achievement and time management strategies I had learned in my thirty years on this Earth. I broke my big goal into little goals and mapped out those little goals on my calendar (i.e. Friday: "Knit one motif"; Saturday: "Figure out that f*#$ing thumb"). Every night, amidst long hours at the office and a long list of Pinch Knits orders, I knit a little bit on the arm warmers and despite all of the frogging and re-knitting, they were done with plenty of time left for me to write up the pattern for you.
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I am so impressed by your ability to make a plan and stick to it. As well as your ability to get your hair so straight and neat.
Posted by: lisa | July 06, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Nice skulls. I totally love the photographs too.
Posted by: Choochie | July 07, 2009 at 12:29 PM
how cute are these.lucky girl
Posted by: amy | July 08, 2009 at 11:22 AM
They look great!!
Posted by: sue | July 08, 2009 at 11:42 AM
omg i want these. genius!
Posted by: acidtrix | July 14, 2009 at 10:31 AM