duh.

knitting can be a really great thing as a learning experience. it can teach you really wonderful things about yourself. it's also nice enough to tell you in a not so subtle way that perhaps it's time to chill and take things slowly.
a couple of prime examples...knitting kite, we'd read the pattern, but we hadn't really read it. we'd sort of gloss over things, thinking that near enough (well, it's about that many rows, and that many increases/decreases, and it'll do) is good enough, much to our detriment. we took 2 huge bags of knitting on our trip to the the country (nowendoc, which is part of nsw entitled "new england" - it's cold enough....), figuring that kite was almost done, so we'd just finish it off, hand it over to mum as a present, and possibly finish off angelina while we're at at travelling all over the countryside.
they're both back with us in glorious, cold, knitweather melbs.