The mittens will have to wait

I may have set myself up with too much to do...

At the moment, I feel like I have three jobs, one full time and two part time. My degree is effectively a full time job, I'm working two days a week at the hospital, and if I don't do at least an hour of knitting a day, I feel noticeably less sane. (How do people who don't knit not end up in mental health clinics being taught to knit?) So yeah, I may have taken on a bit much.

With that in mind, I'm challenging myself by taking part in the Ravelympics.

I know, doesn't follow, does it? Well, I hate being idle, and I know I work best when I'm nice and busy, so why miss the opportunity for a challenge!

The other day I was working on my sweater (pattern to follow, I'm mega proud of it!) and Hubby and I were watching Psycho. I'm not very good at horror or thriller films, and Hitchcock's the master. I was getting a lot of comfort from hugging my Big Silly Pink Shawl, and had a flash of inspiration for The Hitchcock Blankie.

The idea of The Hitchcock Blankie is that it should be a nice simple stitch that one can easily memorise, and thus knit the blanket whilst watching scary films, that it should be squishy (technical term) so that if you need something to hug, it hugs you back, and that it should have two eye holes on one of the edges or corners so that if you are watching the shower scene from Psycho for the first time (as I was the other night) you've got something to hide behind, but you can still watch.

Of course, because it is called a Blankie, it will be knife-proof, bullet-proof and vermicious knid-proof.

I will be swatching between now and the 12 Feb start date, and will then be knitting the first blankie and writing the pattern in the appropriate designer event, and publishing on here by the 28 Feb end date.

At least that's the plan.

Now, I probably ought to go write that essay...