I’ve finally reached escape velocity and made it out of the knitting black hole I was trapped in! Hooray!

I’ve had a rotating bunch of holiday projects I’ve been working on–two sweaters and two pairs of socks–and as I worked on them I noticed that I seemed to have slipped into the dreaded knitting black hole.  You know the one, where you knit and you knit and you knit, and you know you’ve been working on things for a while because you’ve watched everything you DVR’d during the week, plus the entire first season of Everwood (don’t judge) but you can’t  see any sort of progress? And it seems impossible that you’ve been knitting for THAT long and the front of the sweater is still stalled at 9″.

Yeah, I was there.

Then I had that moment. The moment where escape velocity is achieved, and you realize that the sweater is now suddenly 2 inches longer than you intended it to be, even though you swear it was only halfway done just five minutes ago. (For the record, I would like to state that I do not think this phenomenon has been adequatelly studied by the scientific community, and would like to demand that reasearch money be allocated to it at once.)

This weekend, I hit that magic number and was able to finish all of the pieces of my Mom’s sweater, most of the front of my Dad’s, and that the sock on the needles suddenly has half a leg. There’s still plenty of time for me to get bogged down–Dad’s sleeves, finishing, the other pair of socks–but overall I’m feeling a LOT better about this holiday knitting thing.

I still want to know what causes the black hole, though.

Tarot Card of the Day: Eight of Pentacles