Enjoy it while it lasts ....

I took the plunge - finally - I frogged the lily pad seraphim. I still love the yarn - it's so soft and yummy. I still love the pattern. I was knitting doggedly away on it - I started and I was going to finish - and, of course, with every row I became more determined to complete what I had begun. Finally my beloved spouse asked AGAIN why I was knitting this piece. I pointed out the I loved the yarn, the pattern. He asked, rather reasonably and with that patient tone - you know the kind - if I would EVER wear a shawl in such a color. I was forced to respond "no" - after all, I don't want to look like Minnie Mouse any more than the next over six-year-old. I frogged it - my husband, and the friends with whom we were chatting, all cheered.

To fill the void thus created, I have cast on the Gale shawl in Blue Moon Laci. I will probably cast on yet again, since I selected 3.5mm needles and more agonized decision-making has convinced me that probably 4 mm was the way to go. However, the decision leaves me with a travel project void. What shall I take on my trip? Is the Gale sufficiently simple for such use? Not ANOTHER decision!

In a frenzied excess of decision-making, I have decided to cast on Seraphim with the Mini Maiden in my stash. I have two skeins of delicious Victoria in a burgundy and forest green melange. I carefully examined all the projects with Mini Maiden and found that 4 mm is the needle of choice for this yarn.

This may be the moment. I always reach a point after trying to make too many decisions, remaking them, waffling, etc., when a moment of peaceful clarity arises. 3.5 or 4 mm? Mini Maiden or Blue Face Leicester? Will anyone care in a hundred years? Will I care next week? I then make a flurry of decisions in a zen-like daze. The world becomes peaceful. Enjoy it while it lasts ....