Knit Wishes and Meanderings

(Meanderings is a euphemism for mish mash)

• I wish I had more people to knit for. I can only wear so many scarves, but I love making them. I am seriously considering just giving them away on the blog.
  
• Same goes for doilies. I enjoy making them, but what do I do with them when I'm done?
• I think I decided to just go with a picot edge and stockinette stitch on the Lillian Tank Top. Many thanks to Susan of Knitting Alone for the tip about using a smaller needle. I would have been pretty annoyed if I had done a bunch of work and ended up with a lumpy hem.
• In the interest of full disclosure/honesty I have to tell you I'm entering crochet projects into the KnitMeter as well. I hope no one minds. Meterage is meterage in my opinion.
• I finished reading book #6 in the 50 Book Challenge. Please Stop Laughing At Me is the powerful story of Jodee Blanco's suffering at the hands of bullies. She now does workshops for schools. This book has scared the daylights out of me because I didn't really realize how mean kids could be and as grown ups we really don't have a clue. I was a little disappointed by the ending. She went back to her high school reunion and did NOT curse everyone out and bitch slap a few people (remember, I am not mature.) I've contacted my principal and school president about the workshop. I would love to see her come to my school. I haven't seen much bullying where I work, but it never hurts to be proactive.
• You know what I'm finding hardest to resist during my self-imposed hiatus from craft spending? Patterns. Why include patterns you ask? I bought my first pattern 26 years ago. I've been collecting patterns that long. I haven't made even an eighth of what I have patterns for. I don't need any more patterns for now.
• I am growing concerned though about my over-use of mish mash posts. I long to have more well-written posts that deal with one subject at a time. Unfortunately, I rarely have more than one or two sentences to say about a subject and I refuse to just tweet it or plurk it since I neither tweet nor plurk. I have accounts, I just never use them. Now if ravelry were to add a "knit status" feature, that would be a different story.
• I have become increasingly paranoid about the word "got." in my writing.
• The worst thing about the mish mash posts is concluding. I never quite know how to transition into that.