OMG I CAN'T STOP KNITTING

Note the essays and peanuts.

Is knitting too much a problem, do you think?  Because I have been doing an awful lot of it.  The thing is, I have known how to knit for about five years.  I could do one stitch - the knit stitch - and I could cast on and off, and that was enough for me.  I'd make a couple of scarves every winter and I actually felt no desire what-so-ever to improve my knitting skills.  I'd never been so content with such a limited amount of knowledge or skill-level in one of my hobbies.  And then, last week, I had a dream that I could knit anything!  I made blankets in intricate cable-patterns, I made quilts and was known throughout the land as a master knitter.  "She's a beautiful knitter," people said to each other with knowing nods.  And so, when I woke up I thought, I must learn more!  I read reviews of knitting books online and went to town and bought the best one.  I went to Knitter's and Sewer's World and bought cable needles, new yarn, new sizes of needles.  I stared at every person I passed wearing a knit sweater; I felt up various cableknits in stores, examining the backs, the seams, the patterns.  And then, I learned three new stitches in one week AND I taught myself to cable-knit.  I had three projects on the go at once.  I made knitted flowers, squares, scarves, pom-poms, and my masterpiece - a sock for my mp3 player (oh, how cringingly hipster of me). 

Some friends said this is amazing - I am so domestic, so clever!  But I feared the real truth:  I am the best procrastinator of all time.  I should have been writing, marking, and reading.  But knitting seemed like such a wholesome activity - surely there couldn't be anything wrong with it?

Anyways, I have calmed down and I have now gotten some actual work done and truthfully, as soon as the weather warms up, I'll probably get tired and put away my needles until the Fall.  But one friend who has been knitting-not-writing as well said a lovely thing:  We do it because we want to see something intricate and beautiful that we have created - and that is actually finished.