Just another manic knitter

I tend to get restless easily so it's not surprising that I tend to knit in manic waves. I will go 3 to 4 months at a time with doing nothing more than looking with heavy heart at the sprawl of yarns beside my bed. Then I'll wind up cranking out 2 or 3 projects in a few weeks when I'm bitten by the fiber bug. Recently, I've been slacking a bit which is bad since I've been doing a knit-a-long with a friend from work. We're working on the aforementioned skirt and toe-up spiral striped socks. She went on vacation this past week, and the deal was to have finished the sock up to the heel. I am not only a manic knitter but also a bit of a procrastinator so I finally picked up the stitches from my second short row toe and started spiraling. It took me about an hour to do a half inch. I'm getting a massive mocking tomorrow.

I have, however, made some progress on the skirt, which is in the depths of stockinette purgatory. It is at least mindless, so it's something I can do on my commute (I carpool) and still carry on a conversation. Additionally, I am proud to finally show the purse that had been sitting handle-less for a good 3 to 4 months. It's based on one of the bags in the Spring 06 Knit.1. The handle is supposed to be a long crocheted strap, but I was running out of yarn so I bought these wooden handles and made a liner for the purse. I sewed the liner in before I put on the handles so I had to make some hidden straps to attach the handles. Thank goodness my work friend is a sewing genius that helped me figure it out. I got one handle attached about 2 or 3 months ago, and I finally got the second one last weekend. Finishing a project actually feels pretty good. I should try to do it more often.