First, I've been working on a "Cleopatra Wrap" from the Sensual Knits book. I am not even kind of using the right weight of yarn. I was trying to make something a little more sunblocking than a very fine, lacey wrap. I like working on this, but I've found I'm getting bored. Not too much longer to go before I call it quits and graft the thing together, but wow have I been working on this for some time - maybe a year or so? - and every time I pull it out, I get all excited, do a couple patterns repeats and shelf it again.
Second, and most likely to be finished sometime soon, I decided in a moment of temporary insanity that I was going to try knitting two socks at a time, which uses the magic loop method - this is new to me. BAH! Why make knitting easy for myself when I can make it oh so very difficult!?! Easy is for wusses! Anyways, thus far, the verdict on socks two at a time, it takes a long time (or at least it feels like forever! "But it's never taken me this long to knit a sock before" "you're making two right now" "and how does that change the problem??") and at the beginning your yarn is all tangled up, BUT... if you stick with it... it's stupid easy - not sure how, but it is - and well, no more second sock syndrome!
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