I hope I'm not the only knitter who sometimes sees a project that both completely amazes and intimidates me all at once. A project that, were I to complete it, would make me feel like I'd reached the height of my knitting abilities. It might even be a project that's not particularly difficult, that I could very realistically complete, were it not for my own fears, lack of time, or even motivation. I call these projects, "Holy Grail" projects.
There are several of these in my queue and favorites on Ravelry. The top of these (the one I'd most like to complete), is the
Celestarium shawl, by Audry Nicklin. The nerd in me cannot help but adore this. It's been well talked about on various podcasts, but in case you haven't heard of it, the Celestarium is, "...an accurate view of the night sky from the North Pole in the form of a pi shawl." I cannot fully express how much I adore this. However, there are several reasons this is on my Holy Grail project list, and I'm afraid to knit it. First, there are beads (to represent stars) and I haven't ever dealt with beads before. They seem like they could potentially be a nuisance. Second, this thing is huge.
Other Holy Grail projects of mine are several patterns from the book
Ancient Egypt in Lace and Color, by Anna Dalvi (shawls, of course. I'm on a shawl kick lately). I heard about this book on a podcast, and knew it was for me. I'm an archaeologist here in the western United States, but that doesn't mean I don't secretly still have dreams of being an Egyptologist, gallivanting amongst the pyramids. Right now my favorites from this book are
Ra and Apep,
Seth, and
Memphis. Remember last year when I wrote about how
I didn't really care for lace? Apparently my tastes have changed. The most intimidating thing about these are mainly their complicated lace patterns, and again, their size.
Source: Kingtutone.com, a resource center for Ancient Egypt
What are your Holy Grail projects? What about them is keeping you from knitting them? Feel free to leave your thoughts in my comments. I would love to add to my queue/favorites!
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