Do you find yourself at a point where projects, as in unfinished projects start to pile up on you? I do because I can seldom resist the temptation to start a new project but I generally lack the discipline required to finish most of them. However, as I was mulling this over last night, it occurred to me that lack of discipline may not always be the problem.
I was thinking about this:
And this:
The first has been annoying me since I started it because it has been constantly whispering that it would rather be mittens. Telling it to shut-up or just ignoring it has gotten me nowhere so it’s going to get deconstructed and reassembled as hand wear rather than neckwear.
The second, for all it’s lush hand and coloring, is also going nowhere because neither I nor Myria needs another scarf - and neither of us owns anything that these colors would work with. Yes, I realize that the colors might work very well for someone else, but I don’t really want to make another scarf. This too will get disassembled (very carefully because of the four tiny strands of yarn) and re-incarnated later. A fancy stole might be a possibility. Hmmmm….
I do want to finish this and am looking forward to the cooler weather that will make it possible to work on without perspiring all over it :) And most of it is already done - I just need sleeves, collar, buttons and trim. Shouldn’t take much to finish up :)
Now for a couple of “oldies” -
I’ve thought and thought about this but I really don’t see it going anywhere. It was a fun idea in the beginning, but the fun fizzled and it just looks funny to me now - the colors, that is, not the pattern. I still want to make the Lady Eleanor stole (from the book Scarf Style) but I don’t really want to use this yarn and I don’t have anything, at the moment, that would do the job. So I’ll frog what’s here and use that yarn for something else. I have faith the right material for the stole will jump up and announce itself eventually :)
Remember this? I started this last summer spurred by Bron’s realization that life’s too short to waste good yarn. It got set aside for other things (easier things, to be honest) but I definitely want to get back to this. I thought then that it was going to be beautiful and I think so even more now.
Yeah, yeah, there’s the socks too. I’m committed to finishing them next month so I have to get going on those. It’s the turning-the-heel math that’s hanging me up. Every time I sit down to figure it out my brain shuts down. I just need to find a quiet spot and do it :) And there’s the Mourning Dove Tee on which I’ve done a few desultory rows now and again. I don’t want to rip it, but I seem to have lost where I was going with it and don’t quite know what to do now. I guess I’ll let it sit a little while longer and see if things become any clearer.
Have a great weekend!
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There’s something very liberating about visiting that old frog pond. Each rip makes your heart feel a bit lighter. And once it’s done you can breathe easier, knowing that these “loved when started but now just a PITA” projects are all in the past.
Maybe there should be a FROG ALONG! LOL!
Bring out your dead (projects)! Rip with wild abandon. Be FREE!!!
Yep I’ve got some projects which I started with such enthusiasm. I knit knit knit away on them then suddenly I haven’t knit on them in a long time. Then I feel guilty. Everyone -the yarn the needles and the pattern- is doing their part all except for me. Well, one of these days I’ll be back in the mood; I hope.
i like to think of all the unfinished projects i have lying around as really really large swatches- works for me!!
oh my, lady eleanor off to the frog pond- r.i.p. to her (talk about needing to get a life- i’ve anthropomorphized your scarf!)
stay happy-
Laurie - You know you’ve got a great point there. I was thinking this afternoon that if I let those UFOs sit anty longer, I’d be too embarassed to even frog them and I’d just throw them out (and waste the yarn) so wouldn’t have to look at them anymore.
I love the idea of a Frog-along and of bringing out the dead (projects)! The mourning dove Tee is whining that it’s “not dead yet!” though :)
Aarlene - I think we all go through that. This summer hasn’t been good for me in terms of completing projects and I’m hoping that I’ll find my motivation again when the cooler weather hits.
Hope your rain helps cool things a bit!
Barb - really, really large swatches? Heheh - now that’s clever :)
I’m sorry about Lady Eleanor; I thought about your encouragement with this project often while I was trying to decide what to do with it. I like the effect of the yarn used on the book’s project - though I could never afford it. But something similar in appearance, I think, is what I’m going to be keeping my eye open for.
We knitters are all different. I can never have more than two projects on the needles at once. I find it overwhelming to have them unfinished. Hmmmmm….may be a counseling session there..lol. When I look at your unfinished projects. I see creations. You are always experimenting and trying a new idea. Then these lead to something as lovely as you “Seaweed and Shells”. I am sure you will recreate something lovely from the frog pond. Have a great weekend and Miss Peaches sends purrs .
Maureen - You’re right, of course - we are all different. I often think how nice it would be to have only one thing at a time going and to actually finish it before I move on to something else.
But then there are all these ideas floating around in my head and if I don’t play with them, they go away! Horrors! LOL :)
Goldie and Jade send Peaches a high-5!
I keep meaning to make up several sets of ‘toes’ so I could just start socks whenever I felt like plain knitting.
Maybe I just need to get some cheap lion yarn and have some scarves at hand for just knitting when my brain isn’t working.
I do like the more challenging knitting with cables and lace; the satisfaction upon completion is wondrous and great.
Happy Weekend!
Aarlene - Actually, that’s a really interesting thought - a bag or a box of deliberate UFOs for when your brain checks out on you. I think that idea has serious look-into-it possibilities :)
Yep, yep, yep - with all the projects I start, there are bound to be a few that need frogging. Nothing is better to me than dumping/reincarnating old projects. Starting with a clean slate is SO liberating!
You GO girl! ;)
Thanks Bron :) I always feel like such an ass when I have to admit something didn’t work out - your cheer is greatly appreciated!
I hear ya, Robbyn. It’s one thing to admit a project isn’t working to yourself - it’s quite another to admit it on your blog! That’s the only drawback to blogging - people who share in my triumphs also share in my (numerous) mistakes!!!
Bron - Maybe that’s not uch a bad thing? Keeps us honest :)
