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I haven't got a photo to display yet but work on the Fish blanket is progressing well. In the meantime following on from thoughts about the perfect knitting project it occurred to me that this can be extended into just how much knitting each day, week, month year etc is perfect. Well, for a start off I need to delete the word perfect from my vocabulary as it is over rated and in my case unrealistic. So how much knitting is good enough to keep me this side of sane and happy. Again I shall use my blanket square as a good example. It is 38 st x 50 rows on 3mm needles with cotton glace which is almost a DK weight. One square depending on its pattern takes me a day too knit. Before you leap off your chair in amazement at how weedily slow my knitting is I do not mean I sit down at 9.00am and finish a square at 5.00pm, I mean with the 1/2 hr in the morning, maybe a couple of rows are managed during the day and the bulk in the evening I can usually get a square done. But, of course, this doesn't take note of the fluctuations in mood and energy levels. Because these play a huge part in my relationship to my knitting (and everything and everyone else in my life) sometimes I manage a square (or equivalent) a week and on other worrying occasions I might be so hyper that I managed 2 nay 3 squares in one day. Yes, this has happened often when I'm on holiday and have oodles of time free from the drudgery of shopping, washing, cooking and work (although I do love my work). So to get the balance right if I knit one square (or equivalent) a day, I am happy and pleased with my knitting output, more or less needs looking at!!!