Knitting Taking Forever

Mithras on a pogo stick, this thing is taking forever. Forever.

I started a shawl when I was in Galway last summer (OK, I started it probably in the two days preceding getting on a plane to Galway), in this obnoxious yellow yarn that jcortese gave me ages ago. It's this two-ply Herrschner's yarn she'd bought for an afghan kit in a fit of "sure, I can do a large project that's all one design element repeated for 15 miles". This was, alas, overly optimistic.

So, I inherited a vast wasteland of bright yellow yarn, and I've been trying to think of ways to use up the stuff ever since. It's too bright for clothing, IMO, and I tried a sock with it and found it too flimsy. Maybe it would be OK in colorwork, positioned more at the bottom of a sweater. But I don't work with this weight much, so I don't happen to have much that would work with it.

Although, come to think of it...I have a kit with the same weight of yarn, in different colors, from Herrschner's no less, that I actually bought to make a gift for jcortese with. Something like three apartments ago, which I think triggers the expiration of a statute of limitations on my actually making the item in question. Now that I've handled this yarn, I'll *definitely* not make the pattern. Knitting with this stuff is OK, but crochet would drive me to distraction.

Hm. Maybe I should do a funky fair isle or something like that.

Back to my point. I'm making a shawl from this stuff. It's not that annoying to knit with. I'm just a little tired of it today.

The shawl is the square Maple Garland from Marianne Kinzel's Second Book of Modern Lace Knitting. It's a nice book.

I'm on round 91. Of around 200. In March of the following year after starting. I've been knitting the same two rows, with some increases at the four corners, for what feels like, and probably is, at least six months.

*grits teeth*

Make that "an eternity, known in some circles as six months".

I love the idea that's it's going to be big and drapy and look great when it's done -- I'll love it and I'll be really proud of it, and did I mention the long, drawn-out nature of things, here?

I tell you, once I'm done with this shawl -- in, what, 2008? I'm going to use up the rest of this yarn on Elizabeth Zimmerman's Baby Surprise Jackets, maybe with a little red trim, and give 'em all to charity. I just decided that, just now. Just this second.

That'll show you, yellow Herrschner's two-ply yarn! Can't push me around!