Pop Quiz!!!!!!!!

Okay class, close your books and pick up your pencils.  It is time for a pop quiz!  The quiz consists of only one question, but any of you that have been reading my blog for a while will have no problem getting it correct.  So, here goes:

"Why hasn't the Santa Fe Shawl turned up in the Completed Projects column yet?"

a)  I am a fickle knitter, constantly flitting back and forth between projects

b)  I suffer from "start-itis", an affliction that compels one to begin new projects

c)  I walked through the novelty yarn isle of Walmart in a weak moment

d)  I dislike the finishing process of a project -- I much prefer the knitting part

e)   All of the above

Okay, quiz over.  Put down your pencils and pass your papers forward.  So how did you do?  If you answered  e)  All of the above, you got an A+!!!!!!!  The shawl finishing is going slowly due to the fact that I dislike the finishing aspect of a knitting project.  Seriously dislike it.  I would much rather be knitting!  The blocking process was a complete sucess!  After all the grunting and muttering and pulling and tugging, I was very afraid that the pieces would go (((Sproing!!!!!!))) back into their original shape when the pins were removed, but to my immense relief, the pieces stayed put in their new dimensions.  Now for that dastardly sewing up part -- but wait a minute, since I missed my mother-in-law's acutal birthday, what is another week or so going to matter, why not begin a new project now???  So that's what I did.  It did not help that I happened to find myself in the yarn department at Walmart on a day that I was feeling a bit down.  The brightly colored, cheerful novelty yarns got the best of me, and some of them found their way into my cart.  Sneaky things!  Some of that cheerful yarn has already begun its new life as "No Hair Day Hairy Chemo Caps!"  I found a link on Spunknits blog (Innane Knitting Babble) for charity crafters, and one of the links on it lead to http://www.headhuggers.org/.  There are so many cute caps on this site, but this furry one with the silly name really caught my eye!  http://www.headhuggers.org/patterns/kpatt10.htm.  A short walk from the hospital where I work is the Lynchburg Hematology / Oncology Center.  Two summers ago, I spent many hours sitting there playing cribbage with my Dad while he was receiving chemo for colon cancer.  When I found this link, I knew instantly that I wanted to make these caps to give to the Oncology center to give to their chemo patients.  As with Conner's prayer blanket, I find that making things to help others feel better actually helps relieve the heaviness in my own heart caused by my own problems.  Charity knitting is a beautiful thing.  Thanks to Spunknit for providing these links!