I Never Finish Anythin

I have decided to set a goal for my self. If you know me I'd appreciate it if you'd stop laughing. If you don't know me you might wonder what's so funny? Well, here's the thing, I set goals all of the time, sometimes I even strategically plan and make detailed lists with smaller sub-goals and time lines. I can spend HOURS planning. It's impressive. Then, after I've gone through all of the planning I start working on my goal. I finish brilliantly, accomplishing my task with pride, on time and... wait, nope, sorry, that's not me. No, what I do is lose the list, get distracted, get bored with the project, forget about it completely or decide that I'd rather be doing something else during the times when I should be working toward the goal. I imagine that people who both make and accomplish their goals are pretty self actualized. I wonder what that's like.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Oh, sorry, I'm back. I WILL FINISH THIS POST! FOCUS HEATHER, YOU CAN DO IT!

Anyway, I'm setting a goal and I'm posting it here. Important point: The fact that I've posted it here will not make me any more likely to achieve the goal. No sir, it doesn't work like that with me although I wish it did. No, I'm posting it here because I'm hoping it will remind me to work on it and I'm hoping that you might ask me about it so I don't lose sight of it. We'll see if this works.

My goal is centered around this:

No, it only looks like a yarn shop threw up on my bed, THAT is my pile o' projects. Five sweaters in various stages done-ness. That rainbow-y one just needs to be blocked and sewn together, it's been that way since 2008. The pink striped one was for Lucie, I started it in 2009, it's too small for her now so I'll be finishing it for my niece. I'm thinking of re-knitting the yellow one and I'd like to re-knit the mohair one but I'm not sure that I can unravel it without breaking the yarn. I have no plans to finish those anytime soon. 

Here is my goal: I will finish the pink sweater and the purple sweater by October 1, 2011.

This is the pink sweater:

I've finished the back and most of one side. I have the sleeves, collar and the second side to go. This is a really quick knit so it won't take me long.

This is the purple sweater:

I just have the button plackets to go on this one.

Both if these are from the book New England Knits by Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa LeBarre. You can find both of them on Ravelry too. The pink one is the Melrose Peacoat, which I'm knitting in Classic Elite Duchess in the color cameo and the purple one is the Fairfield Sweater, which I'm knitting in Valley Yarns Northhampton in the color lavender. I LOVE this book! I love their other designs too.

Ironically, the reason that these aren't finished isn't because I'm a slow knitter, I'm actually very fast. I just get bored. The fact that I get bored with the project is really sad because this:

is the rest of my stash. That's eight projects worth of yarn that have been waiting for me to get my butt in gear. It's nice yarn too! If you know yarn you'll see that there is a sweater's worth of Noro Kureyon. That aqua yarn is Rowan Kid Classic and the light green in the front is Blue Sky Alpacas Silk Alpaca. Nice stuff that could be beautiful sweaters if I'd just knit them. Oy!

To make things interesting the sweaters are dusty because they've been in a basket in my living room, which means that I'm allergic to them. Yep, fun. I'm going to have to figure out how to de-dust them before I can knit them. At least I keep the other yarn in a plastic bin. That shows some planning. Whatever.

So, two sweaters done by October one. I just rhymed, did you notice?

How about you? Are you a self actualized person who achieves their goals or do you have a proverbial pile o' projects calling to you?

Until Monda