monogamy?
February 2, 2010
so i have this little problem.
with monogamy.
at least when it comes knitting. (shut up you. i can hear you smirking)
if anyone is keeping count, i currently have five projects going, all of which are hundreds, maybe thousands of yards from their cast off. there’s my –
-shetland tea shawl
-noro granny blanket
-dandy neckerchief
-squirrel mittens
-michigan sweater
i realize many knitters share my problem.
and many of you have more projects on the needles than i.
however, i desperately need to complete something.
i need that high of casting something off.
this knitting sluttery cannot continue!
so of course, i cast on a girasole
(yarn is cascade 220 superwash in lichen colorway)
i am in love.
again.
Bitches Get Stitches 
February 2, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I think this means that you’re more interested in the process of creating than the result. It’s the making, not the possession of the product; so as you get closer to the casting-off point, you lose interest or you fear losing that feeling of being in-process.
I get the same way. I like solving problems, and once I feel like there’s nothing left to solve, the rest is just busy work, and I get bored.
And that will conclude my totally un-trained psycho-analysis.
February 2, 2010 at 4:46 pm
stephanie pearl-mcphee (aka the yarnharlot, and one of the knitting world’s biggest celebrities) made a list of the (5?) types of knitters.
a process knitter was one of the types i believe.
when are you going to learn to knit?
February 2, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I think monogamy is overrated.
February 3, 2010 at 10:31 am
It’s so beautiful! I have the startitis also. There is no cure, I’m afraid.
February 3, 2010 at 3:52 pm
I WISH I had your psycological problem!!! Unfortunately, of late I have been approaching crochet the same way I do everything I really really deep down want to do. I get so scared I’m gonna be shit at it or it wont work out the way I imagine it in my mind, that I procrastinate and avoid doing it at all! Do you think there is a therapist who actually specialises in yarn related phobias and hysteria?
February 5, 2010 at 10:30 am
That’s why Ravelry created the “hibernation” category, so you can push the less active WIPS out of sight & make yourself feel better. Care to join me for no casting-on during Lent? 🙂
February 8, 2010 at 7:33 pm
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