In my previous post about these gloves I admitted they'd been sitting around for 5 months waiting for 12 stitches to be bound off (and the ends to be woven in).  I was pretty incredulous.  Maybe I should have given myself a break though.

In my head, I thought I could finish them up in an hour ... maybe two.  But I ended up burning about 4 night's worth of free time on finishing them up.  And these aren't consecutive nights, either, so we're talking over a week's worth of free time.  WAY more time than I thought I would.  And, you know what, spending lots of time on a project that my brain thinks is "finished" is not super fun.

First issue was that when I bound off the thumb stitches, they weren't bending with the ribbing.  I'd been doing the knit bind off which is stretchy and, when done in pattern, bends with the ribbing so it doesn't flare out.  It just wasn't working, so  I thought I wasn't doing it right.

I pulled out Superstar Kniting and tried again.  Still borked.  I looked up youtube videos.  I was doing what I was supposed to be doing.  I really couldn't figure out what could be wrong.  So I frogged the thumb back to before the ribbing and reknit all the ribbing.  Then it was perfect again.  Whew!

Second issue is that weaving in ends takes a lot of time if you want them to look nice.  A lot of time.  Way more time than you ever imagine it would take.  Ugh.  So much time.  Since the turtleneck could be up or down, I had to make sure that the weaving looked very nice on both sides.  Hours and hours of weaving in ends.

Third issue is I'm 90% a process crafter and 10% an product crafter.  90% of me just kept thinking, "Why am I still working on this?!  I bound off those 12 stitches days and days ago."  That 90% of me totally trampled all over the 10% that was trying to finish up these nice little gloves.  And, if I hadn't been making them for someone, I probably wouldn't have finished them.  It's the awful truth.

Oh, well.  It's not like I was putting it off because I knew it would be a timesink, but next time I'll be a little less glib about how much work is actually left on an "almost finished" project. :)  

And maybe next time I'll give my process crafter the promise of a new project to look forward to to keep her quiet while I'm trying to finsh things up.  Or maybe the promise of a cookie.  Either would probably work. ;)