Itchy Fingers

Posted by Kelly Gilliam Jul 24, 2006

I'm going to take this time to get a little personal (and hopefully you readers won't mind!). Over the past month and a half I have been in the throws of moving. Not just any moving, but moving to a brand new city and I only had a month to completely pack up my life and get everything together. Let me tell you, has been interesting.

Now, I'm very excited, this has given me an opportunity to open a new business (something I've wanted to do for four years now), not to mention, there are three spectacular yarn shops all within four city blocks. Seriously, I love it.

However, as much as I've been looking forward to that, I've also had no time to knit in the past little while. I've gotten about an inch of a gusset in a slipper done in the past month, and that's it (which is especially bad because it's for my mom and she's been waiting patiently for over a month now!).

I find myself getting very agitated with the lack of knitting. I miss it; I find that I don't have my down time at night. Some people like to watch TV, or read a book. I like to get out my knitting and that's how I wind down from the day. I try to fit it in as best I can, but I'm just so busy it's hard. Is it just me, or do other people find they get itchy fingers when they don't have time to knit? It's like an addiction.

Fortunately now that I have moved (and am broadcasting this to you not from Vancouver, but from Nelson, B.C.), I do have more time at my disposal and I'm thankful. The whole phenomenon of itchy fingers though is one I'd not like to revisit.

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