Now that I have the prospect of free time for knitting, I must come to grips with the fact that I have only one project on the needles.  It’s boring.  It’s endless.  And since I can’t make up my mind about what to knit next, if I want to knit at all I have to power through and finish this.

Last weekend I took both shawls – the finished green one (now many years old and needing a good wash and block) and the not-yet-finished gold one – and laid them out on the grass, with the gold overlapping the green.  Pretty, huh?  I love how neat the edge on the gold shawl is – that’s the actual edge, not a photo-shopped splice.

I was trying to get a photo which would show how much remained to be knit.  It turned out to be a pretty difficult thing to get in one shot; here’s the best I could do (the angle distorts everything):

I’ve been making steady progress all week so it’s even closer now.  I just added in the last ball of yarn!!!!!  I think I will be done within a week or so, and then a terrible problem emerges.  What next?  I am suffering from over choice.  There are so many gorgeous patterns out there begging to be knit that I have descended into a pattern paralysis, so to speak.  While I remain in this state of indecision, I will keep on ribbing.

Have a good weekend everyone!

WordPress gives you statistics on a number of things, including what search terms people have used to find your blog. This can sometimes be informative, sometimes baffling, and sometimes hysterical.  This morning, I found this:

People found your blog using the following search terms:

Enough said.

On Thursday, I put the last edits in on my thesis, pushed the submit button, and finished my Exec MBA.  (Hooray!)  I called Doug and said “I’m finished!”  After the appropriate cheering and such, Doug said “OK.  What do you want to do now?”  I thought for a minute and said “Go see the bluebells!”

Bluebells are beautiful wildflowers that carpet parts of England for a few precious weeks each spring.  If you blink, you may miss them.  That would be a shame.  The best part of living in this corner of the world is going for a walk through the bluebell woods in the spring.  Below you can see a patch of bluebells in the distance; see the hints of purple?

And here they are up close.  I love this photo, which shows that in every crowd there is a non-conformist:

We went to see them at Grey’s Court, a National Trust property near our home, that has the most spectacular gardens.  I love this little peak of the flowering trees on the other side of the wall.

It’s been a very busy 30 months, full of hard work and total craziness, not to mention a career change mid-way through, but I must say I loved (nearly) every minute of it!

Whatever will I do now with all of my spare time?

I am so close to finishing my MBA.  So very, very close…

This means that I have no knitting to report, and no time to blog.  When I am finished (any day now!) I am going to knit like a maniac!  (Maybe I will sleep first.  And go out and celebrate.  And sleep some more.  But then, I’m going to knit.  And knit.  And knit.)

Wish me luck!  I’m almost there!