I have finished weaving in the ends on the mitered cross blanket blocks. Now I just have to sew them together...

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I'm knitting lace. What the hell am I thinking?

Actually the lace bit on the Dahlia cardigan isn't too terrible. In fact I've eschewed knitting just about anything else since casting on. The poor Shakespeare Cardigan has been long neglected. Maybe I'll pull that out tonight to give it a little love.

Mood: Happy that the rainy weather is coming back.

Shakespeare Cardigan by Pam Grushkin, photo by Tahki Stacy Charles

I know I had picked some other sweaters before, but I never cast them on because they didn't feel right and I wasn't about to spend another four months knitting the wrong sweater again. Then of course there was this problem where I couldn't get gauge no matter what needles I used. It was a little disappointing to pick a sweater only to have it not work out in the gauge process.

Then I finally found the Shakespeare Cardigan, but it took a while to commit to this pattern because I was uncertain about the 1x1 rib, which encompasses most of the knitting. That kind of ribbing can be a pain on the hands especially since I don't knit continental and don't have the brainspace to learn it. Thankfully, the 1x1 rib wasn't so terrible and I'm actually enjoying it.

Is it official? Has my sweater knitting mojo has returned? I feel as good knitting this as I did my first tweed cardigan, which was the Central Park Hoodie. Is that what knitting mojo is supposed to be? The confidence that whatever you're knitting will turn out right. If so, then I've got it back, baby!

Have you ever lost your knitting mojo? Tell me all about it, I've been there!

One of my closest friends treated me well this Christmas and gave me my new favorite handbag. It's a quilted bag in all of my favorite colors. It's super simple, no fancy pockets on the inside, but it sits on my shoulder just right and it matches what I usually wear. I love this bag so much that I want my friend to make a bunch of them to sell. I know that there are knitters out there that don't like to sew (just like me) and there aren't that many knittng bags in the $50 and under price point.

What do you think? Do you have room in your life for another knitting bag?

It's been a busy couple of months. I know this now because things have finally quieted down and I can think back to the Spring which was the last time it was sort of sedate chez knitluck. Since July we've been dealing with one one thing or another whether it was Burning Man, recovering from Burning Man, building a new website, planning Thanksgiving and coping with the general craziness of the holidays, not to mention children's birthday parties and an upcoming mommy knitting retreat. I'm here to give stay at home mom a whole new meaning. Mostly that I will stay at home with the children and do a whole heap of kooky things.

Like knitting.

Here's photographic proof of the mitered square blanket:

I finished one of the Cosmic Dawn Socks:

Knitting as ever has been a sense of calm for me. More than that, a sense of joy and has brought me many friends over the past two years. That has been the big thing about 2012, using knitting to expand my horizons, or bringing knitting to others to help them. I'd like to continue that. Thank you to Tamara, Bina, Alex, Robin, Renee, Cara, Poppy, Tink, Monty, Danielle, Jacqui, Jonsi, Julie, Josh, Chris, Nate, Liam, Mom, Dad, Victor, Grandma, Mama E for a terrific year.

And Knit Luck readers, I'd like to thank you because you keep coming back here.

Hope you have a happy new year and that 2013 makes your dreams come true because that's what I'm doing, making my big dreams come true.

Happy Knitting xKnitLuck