i've created a monster

help!  i've gone and done it.  i should have known that this would happen, but i didn't really forsee the consequences.  there's no helping it.  i might as well fess up.

i taught my coworker how to knit.  that's not really a problem.  she had learned in home-ec class when she was younger (an undisclosed time ago, although i may mention that this particular coworker is old enough to be my mother.) so it was just a matter of reaquaniting her with the motions.  not bad, right?  she loves fiber- good fiber, like merino, alpaca, mohair... we have a lot in common.  she found a pattern that she loved, yarn she loved, and was off to the races. she's made two cowls now, and seems to be doing quite well.  i was very excited until today, when i found out the wicked truth.

she's put over three hundred dollars  in yarn on her credit card... in the last three days.  now, i like stash enhancement with the best of them, but this seems, well, excessive.  she's just started this knitting adventure, and if past experience proves true, she's fickle.  i don't want to be blamed for her credit card bill, and i've been nothing but enabling to her- i gave her the knit picks website, along with jimmy beans wool.  she's even got a ravelry account now, which is the ultimate enabling tool.  i just have this awful vision of her husband chasing me down a road somewhere with a nineteen page bill clutched in his fists, screaming at me about how retirement is now impossible and have i've ruined their golden years. 

i've never had a knitting success rate quite like this.  hopefully the knitting will take hold this time, as she's looking at other patterns and discussing how she thinks that socks "really don't look that hard", but i know this woman, and i shouldn't be too optimistic.  it's ok though.  when this jag is over, i'll be sitting there, willing to take some handpainted alpaca off her hands.  i'll even pay for half the skein- because that's what good friends do. 

christmas knitting update:  nearly everything done!!!!  all that's left is a pair of socks for the mother-in-law, but i got her something else good, so if they aren't done, it's gonna be ok.  although, there's supposed to be some snow coming in tomorrow, so who knows.  i may get all the knitting done yet.  i'm so proud!