brilliant idea! this could be just the kick in the Black Water Abbey ass I need ....

Can't do guilt...it's a four letter word...well, not really, I realize that, but you know. Good luck, anyway. ;-)

Ooh, I noticed that sweater too. It's very classic. I'm sure your dad will love it. What is the yarn?

I'm a no guilt girl. That said, you've inspired me to finish the sweater for my daughter that just needs one sleeve. That's it. Glad that you had fun last night :-).

Well, it's not really a guilt-a-long, since it's for me, but I pledge to finish that damn Einstein Coat!

Aargh! You got me! I have started a Prayer Shawl group at my church. It has taken off in ways I never could have predicted, so many people have been touched by this ministry. There are quite a few women that are knitting their little hearts out keeping up with the demand (and the demand has been pretty great). Here is my confession. I, the chaiperson for the group, have not finished ONE prayer shawl myself. NOT ONE. No one has noticed I don't think. I promise to finish one.

I up for it. I told my husband that I would knit him a sweater, I only have 6 in. done on the back and he's a XL. He keeps asking for it too, I have all the yarn and the needles. I need to get it done by Nov. 1st, because I can't be knitting and giving birth at the same time. So I got to get it done. No blog, but sign me up.

Nope. Not me. I am proudly, inexorably and irrefutably all about knitting for me.

;-)

So much guilt, so little time!

Count me in, I have a few 'need to do's around here. It'll be fun to move them out.

I charity knit once a year and even missed this year. Otherwise, I totally agree with you on the MY knitting.

Hysterical! I have only one guilty project, and that is Charlotte's Web. I started a KAL for it (a knit-behind, no less), gave myself a one-year deadline and still didn't finish it. I am honestly only feeling guilty about it because other people knit it, and as KAL mistress I feel that I should have, too.

That said, I have many gifts in the works, and those come first, so I won't be tackling Charlotte until next year. Perhaps if you have a Knit-Behind Guilt-Along I can join that!

Oh dear, guilt-ridden knitting? I'm not too sure about that. Those who knit only for charity? Well, to each his own.

I have two children, how much guilt can I take in a lifetime? My daughter has been actively guilting me into finishing a sweater she said she would knit - she made me buy the yarn with that promise and then somehow it was my fault that it was not ready for pictures day. And I believed her.

I can't wait to go read all about it at Kay's -- glad you had so much fun.

To guilt or not to guilt, that is the question... I go back and frickin' forth about that. I'd love to knit for others, want to knit for others, sometimes even sorta promise to knit for others -- and sometimes I actually do knit for others (last year's thrummed mittens x2 pair -- for one or two or four things -- and booties and baby hats, too, and I've actually finished two afghan squares). I'm still thinkin...

What a siren song for a little Catholic girl like me! Count me in...now to decide what project I feel guiltiest about!

I spent this whole weekend atoning for not knitting "stitches of love" for my boyfriend in months.

Hmmm...a guilt project...let's see, there's the afghan I started for my sister-in-law because she bought a house, then realized my mother would have a cow if I made an afghan for anyone but her, and the guilt I felt there slowed up my work on the afghan...guilt on so many levels! Yeah, I'm in. Finish the damn afghan and toss a coin to see who I give it to. I certainly don't want it myself anymore.

What did you find objectionable about the Peruvian Highland wool? I have been considering buying some. Is it like Cascade 220 Quattro which is also Peruvian wool? Thanks.

Heh, cute idea! Unfortunately, or fortunately-as you wish- I have no guilt in the knitting arena. I do plenty of knitting for charity. I do it because I like it. I love it, in fact. I find it fascinating, though, that when I post about something I knit for Dulaan, that's the day when I get few to no comments.

I'm in. Endless ribbing, a couple of cables, and an elven name up the middle. Yikes. Guess who THAT'S for....

Girl, I have enough guilt... but I will definitely watch your Guilt Knitalong! This idea is too funny. That sweater for your dad is great!

I'm in!

An ex-boyfriend who lives in Southern California requested pastel-colored vegan mittens about seven months ago. He is not joking; in fact, he asks me where his mittens are all the time.

I ungraciously dumped said ex ten years ago. We're still friends, and he is far better at keeping in touch than I am. Since he's vegan, I only have to use acrylic, and mittens are so easy to make. I've been putting it off because I'd rather be knitting for.... myself.

Guilt guilt guilt.

Yup, Eleanor's pink sweater, the one I had high hopes for. Maybe I'll just finish it in stockinette and embroider some flowers on it. She'll like that better than the traveling stitches I had planned.

Love the guilt, and I think it's the perfect time of year to atone for our abandoned knitting projects. It seems like a lot of us are doing it anyway. L'shana tova! Now, back to work!

It was great meeting you the other day, I had no idea that you were january one! Count me in for the guilt along, although if I finished all of the projects currently making me feel guilty, I probably would be doing the guilt along until 2007.

I am SO in on the Guilt Along. Hey, I'm all about guilt. I've got a baby blanket that needs finishing that I just couldn't bring myself to complete. Now, between my mom and this along, I should have POUNDS of guilt to go on!

Brillinat idea, but then I wouldn't expect anything else from you. Hmm is this just for guilty knitters or also for guilty sewers? I have enough unfinished projects for all of us. ugh

Here's when I feel the weight of guilt on me: it's when I have said out loud that I am knitting something for somebody. When I PROMISE them something. When the thing is already out there in somebody's mind before I even make it. There's the rub. If I don't promise them ahead of time, it's a piece of cake.

Conclusion: never pre-give anybody a handknit. When I have a handknit to give, give it. But don't pre-give. It's a recipe for disaster.

I just offloaded two sweaters to my sister Buffy--one that I'd promised her, and the other that I'd made for her as atonement for not finishing the first one!

I have one more pre-given handknit to finish, and then I'll enter a new world of burdenless knitting. Wheeeee!

In my mind, it's the Dad-along. I'm on the second front! Guilt lifting, every day, every fat gray skein!

Can you believe Ann has been hogging the blog so much that I haven't posted about our Knit Up yet?

I feel guilty about that......

Don't feel guilty about not knitting 'enough' for charity. There are so many ways to be charitable and try to heal the world. Most hobbies are purely hobbies so the issue doesn't come up. xoxo Kay

xoxo Kay

I'm in, I feel the guilt everytime I see the WIPs in the basket. I have 4 guilty objects waiting for my attention.

Ok, ok.......YES, I too feel the guilt. That baby afghan is burning a hole in my bag and the baby won't be a baby anymore if I don't get off my butt and finish the thing! I'm going....I'm going........