Swatching, and swatching, and swatching and more swatching...

So I've managed to sign up for all of Jean Wong's classes at Madrona this year, and am really looking forward to learning new and interesting techniques. However, it's getting down to panic time for me, as I've never been very good at getting swatches done, something about knitting little squares just doesn't do it for me. And for these courses I have to knit millions of these little squares, and I have to follow very detailed instructions for doing it.

I've finished the swatches for the first 2 days of classes (Deep breath of relief), however I have not blocked it (and I don't think I will), and I produced 2 swatches when I only was required to produce one :) I think it will really depend on what she is going to tell us, which one I will use. One is this gorgeous dark purple/blue/black irridecent silk/wool japanese yarn that I picked up in HK last year. I believe it is DK weight. The other is some of my 2 pounds of handspun olive merino that is aran weight.

The Sat class swatches are bogging me down, I have 5 more to knit (I think, please only be 5 more), and have completed 9 of the rest of them. I just need to buckle down and do it. Maybe tonight... I will sit there with my instructions, yarn holders, size 5 needles and just put the nose to the grindstone and finish them off. It REALLY shouldn't take me that long, but for some reason I just don't want to do them, looking at the instructions always seems to get me moving doing other stuff, like taking out trash, and washing bathrooms, and cleaning litter boxes.

Then the Sun class swatches are staring me in the eye, and taunting me that I haven't done them yet either. I did get my ass in gear and dye the yarn into 6 (not the suggested 5) colours and will be swatching them up as soon as I finish the swatches for the Sat class.

I SHOULD be able to get it all done. If I can finish a sock in a night, how come I can't do 8 swatches? Must be some weird mental block... Swatches seem to take much much longer than actual real knitting.