Well, I’ve been puttering along on the same, several projects I’ve been working on for a while now - the HP scarf (one done, one in progress), the Waterspun scarf (to go with the hat and mittens), the crocheted lace table center, the crocheted bathmat set (which I hope to make serious progress on this weekend) and the proposed Waterspun shawl. The fancy scarf is almost certainly going to get scrubbed - I haven’t liked the way it looked for a while now and can’t imagine giving it as a gift. Since it is very close to being done, I may finish it anyways. Oh, who am I kidding…
The shawl, I think, is going to have to wait a while because I want several additional yarns to use as “mix-ins” - like ice cream? I’ve got a bit - though just a bit - of really nice mohair. A full ball of that, plus the same mohair in another colorway would be just lovely. Some sport or DK weight balls in pinks, blues, purples and/or teals would be lovely too as well as something(s) textured. I’ll be collecting for a while before this gets underway.
Organization seems to elude me as far as knitting and projects go. When I was part of the 9 to 5 working world, I was very organized. I could analyze problems, figure out what was necessary to solve the problem and the proceed in a linear and logical fashion to a suitable solution. In fact I had something of a reputation for organization. I know - hard to believe, isn’t it!
With the knitting (and crocheting, and beading, etc…) I seem to have seriously truncated my attention span. I’ll start something and work on it enthusiastically until something else catches my eye or sparks my interest. Then I’m off on a new project and the old one will languish, to be worked on (guiltily) once in a while, or completely forgotten - until I run across its poor, crumpled form in the bottom of one of my bags several weeks or months later and frog the poor things to release it from its misery.
This approach also results in piles of projects in the living room which only get larger and never seem to get finished and put away.
I have wondered if this is a permanent condition for me or if it’s, possibly, a phase - albeit a long one. I do learn things this way. I know that I’m more likely to finish a small project, say a hat, a scarf or a pair of mittens (though that second mitten is tough) than a bigger project like a sweater or a poncho (trust me, at my size, both these things qualify as bigger projects). But I’ve lately begun to wonder if breaking up a bigger project into small pieces that I could complete quickly might be a way of fooling my impatient self into actually completing something larger than a placemat.
For example, I’ve got quite a bit of some very nice yarn in several, companionable colors. However, the hanks are only 21-23 yards long. There will be lots of joining and piecing going on when I figure out what I want to do with this stuff. Hey!! - wait…. Doesn’t that mean that I could work things in pieces and, maybe, not get too bored with it? Maybe? I have a couple of ideas perking in my head and I’d like to start trying to figure out how to work them…but I already have all these projects going on…
What to do, what to do….
Have a great weekend folks!
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if i look at the great assortment of items i have on hooks and needles here, i am sure i have the attention span of a gnat- whatever i see lately, i want to make!
i can’t wait to see what you decide to do with your small hanks- i call those ‘yarn sniglets’ and always have an abundance of them- i’ve looked at some of the scrap yarn projects and haven’t ever found one that just screamed out to me which is strange considering my affinity for startitis-
glad you got the cotton and it has found a good home at last-
stay happy-
Yarn sniglets? That’s a cute term! I don’t generally like scrap projects because I’m not fond of random color schemes. I figure I have to finish the HP scarf, the crochet center piece and the Waterspun scarf before I’ll feel free to start something else. Not that those are the only things I’ve got going, but they’re the things that sort of have deadlines :)
Thanks again for the cotton. The bath mats are on for this weekend :)
I am that way with my cross stitch. I have a trillion projects started…but then, I see something new and BANG, I’m off again. I’m trying to not do that with my knitting. 1 project at a time…we’ll see if that happens or not. Good luck!
Thanks for the good wishes; self-discipline has always been a real bête noir for me. Good luck to you too!
A gazillion UFOs are just perks of the job Robbyn, hur hur. We all have ‘em, though some of us have more than others. I’m striving to build up my quota of UFOs as I think I might be languishing below average right now.
I love the pic of the Canada geese by the way.
It’s compulsion, I tell you! I’ve been doing so much of the same thing…start this, start that….admittedly, I’m finishing a few things also but I feel like such a gadfly! I’m a double Virgo - my middle name is organization - but like a crow spotting something bright & shiney, I can’t resist that “new project.” I need to stop buying magazines, books, etc. And stop visiting blogs too…..
Perhaps it’s merely my incredible creative drive? Yep, yep - that’s it! Me & Michelangelo…. 
Hear no new projects, see no new projects, speak of no new projects. Yeah…that would last what, about a day? ha!
Pam - LOL! Not quite up to snuff on the UFO front? I could send you some of mine… 
Bron - The “crow” analogy is particularly apt. I’ll be working along nicely and a new idea presents itself (via blog or magaazine, as you quite rightly noted) and I can feel that part of my brain go “Oooh! Shiny!!!” just before it totally derails…
I think I’m with you here - it’s the incredible creative drive. Yup - definitely!
