Believe it or not. I finally solved the mystery. How to finish a knitting project. One out of too many...

Ok. To start with, make sure you have a big family event coming up.

Then, decide to do all the cooking yourself...

(And remember to clean the house and get some flowers...)

While you're at it - remember your knitting. Make sure to gather anything in your living area that could be associated with knitting - that is your WIPs of course, but also your needles, your books, your magazines, your winding equipment and your stitch markers. Put it somewhere totally out of sight. Everything. In bags, boxes. Far away. In the attic.

The evening before..almost ready..

Then welcome all guests in this unfamiliar, wonderfully clean and knit-free atmosphere. Enjoy the party, and afterwards - the post-party leftover feasts. Feel exhausted and content. Then - during the next few days - slowly - slowly start to feel a growing restlessness in your fingers and faintly remember something you used to do. Before.

Then, one evening when everyone else is asleep - find yourself tip-toeing up in the attic. Let yourself be astonished by everything you gathered there many days ago. Breathe. Remember to breathe. Then - allow yourself to pick one - only one - tiny, light and very tempting knit. Bring it downstairs and put it discretely on a shelf or table. In a corner. Behind some books. Whatever. During the following days you are allowed to put in stitches on this one and only project. Continue. Continue. And there. There. Finally.

Icarus. Unblocked.

Icarus. Blocked. Spreading it's wings...

details:

pattern: icarus shawl, interweave knits summer 2006

yarn: a 2-ply silk80/cashmere20 blend that I got from here. (can't find it there anymore..) I used considerably less than the 100 g /1200 m cone - I would guess around 60 - 70 g of it.

needles: 3 mm circular

result of knitting this: I find myself totally obsessed with lace now.....