Conflicted

I'm conflicted on a couple of levels.

All summer I have been afflicted with Starteritis. There are so many projects I want to knit, and I am trying hard not to cast-on for all of them. Now I am starting to suffer from Finishitis. I haven't had an FO in a while and would like to finish something.

So while I would like to start some new items on the way to Hawaii, I am conflicted. Thing is, I can finish up my Victorian lace socks in an hour or so if I'd just sit down and do it. Then I have two socks left on the needles. A rather boring beaded rib (photo at right) and the stranded socks. I am reluctant to take the stranded socks. I have a special bag that holds two balls together and keeps them from being unmanagable, but I'm just not sure about two-handed stranded on a plane. The beaded rib, however, will put me to sleep. Since I will have time to focus, I want a more complicated pattern. So I was thinking of doing Monkey with the Hawaii-inspired yarn I bought a while ago. I guess then I will still have one complicated sock, one easy sock, and one stranded sock otn like I have now.

And then there is this. The Victorian Ruby scarf. I have stalled out because I am not happy with the bind off on the edge of the first border. You can see it in the bottom of the photo. It is too tight. Not as stretchy as the cast-on. So I am worried that it won't block well. I had started the main body, but now I am very much stalled out. I found some posts on KR, though, recommending stretchy bind offs, and am prepared with new knowledge.

See that white crochet cotton in the middle of the photo? That was my last lifeline. So if I try to unbind and it gets all fubar, then I will have to frog back to that. That's a lot of yarn in the frog pond. Sigh. But I want to do this right. So I know I will have to frog.

I'd take this on the plane, as reknitting half of the first border will definitely keep me awake, but I am a bit concerned about knitting laceweight on the plane...I don't want it to catch on anything and plane lighting isn't always the best lighting, especially since I think we will be flying at night both ways.

On the progress front, I have been working on my moebius scarf lately. It is great TV knitting and C and I have been watching Battlestar Gallactica on DVDs.

I have also been working on these guys. They knit up fast...in one night. They are baby loveys for the Parkland Christmas bags. I had to get some perle cotton to do the faces before stuffing and sewing them up.

And when posting my questionnaire, it occured to me that I have not ever posted the toddler dress I have in progress. I finished the back. The front will look just like it only with a small matching eyelet design in the center of all that stockinette. This is that ropey Cleo cotton that hurts my hands to knit with. It's been folded up in a bag, so I am sure blocking will improve it a lot. I hope so.

I told myself I cannot start the front of this until I finish the front of DH's sweater, which I need to dig out and work on. I'm at the sleeve decreases for that sweater.