Happy Knitting New Year!
I was playing fetch with the dogs last night in the living room (don't tell Mr Knits - he wasn't there) and the ball went behind the couch. Well, I couldn't find it - there are so many bags of partly finished knitted items, the ball got lost in one of them.
I'm thinking that if I don't get some of these projects done, I run the risk of severely offending the knitting gods, in particular the revered Mother Merino of Cashmere, if I don't get this problem under control.
So, I decided to make some knitting resolutions today, and November 12th is heretofore declared (at least in my life) Knitting New Year. And I have set a deadline of January 1, 2010 to have them all finished.
My resolutions so far are:
Oh, and that thing about "behind the couch". That's the "Black hole of Nancy's knitting". It's where I hide partly knit things from sight - mine, John's and the dogs. Sometimes, I don't like what I'm knitting, and figure I'll finish it later, so I shove it back there. Out of sight, out of mind. Or, I needed to bring more yarn from the store, and I forgot to bring it home. Of course, if I've hidden the thing away, there's nothing to remind me to bring yarn home, so I don't. And some of it is the essential "emergency knitting". Those are the easy projects you can drag out when you want mindless knitting. But it's got to stop. Really.
I was thinking of beginning a "Startaholics Anonymous" group for wayward knitters and crocheters. But then I'd be starting something else. And I couldn't shove a group behind the couch. There simply isn't enough room. So I trashed that idea.
I started the behind the couch diving this morning. And I brought out almost every bag from back there, put them in my car and toodled off to work.
The bags are still in the car.
And the dog's ball? I never did find it.
I'm thinking that if I don't get some of these projects done, I run the risk of severely offending the knitting gods, in particular the revered Mother Merino of Cashmere, if I don't get this problem under control.
So, I decided to make some knitting resolutions today, and November 12th is heretofore declared (at least in my life) Knitting New Year. And I have set a deadline of January 1, 2010 to have them all finished.
My resolutions so far are:
- I must finish all eleventy gazillion projects already on the needles before starting even one more new one.
- Make all the matching socks to the singlets at home and in the shop. There must be twenty of them.
- Go through the part and single balls of yarn I have squirrelled away and either donate, give away or throw them out. I haven't used some of these bits in years, and I know I won't use them now.
- Organize my addi's once and for all. End of that story.
- Go diving behind the couch and get all the projects out. Ask Mr Knits about this one.
- Organize, file, throw out, burn - whatever it takes to get my personal pattern and book collection under control.
Oh, and that thing about "behind the couch". That's the "Black hole of Nancy's knitting". It's where I hide partly knit things from sight - mine, John's and the dogs. Sometimes, I don't like what I'm knitting, and figure I'll finish it later, so I shove it back there. Out of sight, out of mind. Or, I needed to bring more yarn from the store, and I forgot to bring it home. Of course, if I've hidden the thing away, there's nothing to remind me to bring yarn home, so I don't. And some of it is the essential "emergency knitting". Those are the easy projects you can drag out when you want mindless knitting. But it's got to stop. Really.
I was thinking of beginning a "Startaholics Anonymous" group for wayward knitters and crocheters. But then I'd be starting something else. And I couldn't shove a group behind the couch. There simply isn't enough room. So I trashed that idea.
I started the behind the couch diving this morning. And I brought out almost every bag from back there, put them in my car and toodled off to work.
The bags are still in the car.
And the dog's ball? I never did find it.
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