Anyway, recently I have been plagued by my WIP pile. You know the pile that screams your name at night while you try to sleep. The one that says "hey you! Did you forget about me?" The one that lives in all of the really cute holiday themed project bags that only get used a month or two out of the year. Of course you shuffle them when the seasons change so you can use those bags. But you do just that.....shuffle them to another out of season bag. The one that haunts you when you try to buy new shiny yarn and makes it nearly impossible. So in return you just buy yarn in colors you don't have or in colors the kids or your sister would like. Ok, so maybe that crosses over into the overflowing, takes up room in your bedroom that you really can't spare, but oh my goodness it's beautiful, stash.
Test knitting doesn't help the WIP pile either. Especially when it's socks. You only have to knit 1. So you knit 1. Then the next test knit pattern comes up and you knit 1. Never mind what you stopped knitting in order to test those patterns. WIPs.....I haz them!
I am not just talking about socks and and test knitting! I also am a great _AL-onger. KALs,SALs,RALs and CALs I love them all. Then I get over whelmed or sidetracked or bored for what ever reason and then I end up moving onto the next thing or the yarn I just bought. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone else understand where I am coming from?
I have four kids and at different parts of the year I have to have WIPs in different levels. There are ones that need no brainspace and no looking necessary for softball or sometimes kids' homework time, I can do this but have to look and pay a little attention for watching TV or sitting in the car waiting for a kid or two, and I really want to do this but it has to be while the kids are in school or the husband is out of town because every line of this 3000(exageration) row chart is differnent and I have to count....LOTS!
At the moment, lets see if I can remember them all and I'm sure I'll forget some, I have on the needles:
Raspberry Dream Stole
Color Affection
Revontuli
Vernal Equinox
1 Laura Nelkin shawl
1 Galina Khmeleva Shawl
A shawl I am designing (but the rows are really long now)
1 secret test knit shawl
2 socks from The Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet Vol's I and II
5 Heatherly Walker sock patterns
4 Knitter's Brewing Company sock patterns
1 sock pattern that I designed and only knit 1 (and this I don't get because it is my pattern!!!!!)
4 other misc sock patterns by different designers
1 tank top
1 Woodstove Season sweater
2 pair of fingerless gloves with flip tops
1 crochet size 10 thread, 96 squares needed, king size bed spread
1 lace weight crochet shawl
1 fingering weight crochet shawl I am designing
1 crocheted tea set for my little girls
OK......the brain is fried! I really think there is more but they are not coming to me at the moment.
This week I have cast on 2 hats and finished them. I also finished one pair of super secret, can't tell you about them or I'd have to kill you, socks that have been on the needles since.....um.....Halloween....I think.
I really need to get some of this stuff off of the needles. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone else understand where I am coming from? I doubt I am alone on this. I'm not quite at the point of storing the WIPs or the yarn in my freezer....yet... I am however always eager to go buy more needles so I don't have to take them out of something else. I also love to buy more Holiday themed bags to
I am determined to knit down the WIPs. I don't tend to be very consistent with things....so maybe this will help me stay more focused and on task.
Please feel free to let me know I am not alone. Feel free to tell me about your WIP pile. I will do my best to add pictures along the way. I CANNOT show you pictures of secret stuff but I'll show you what I can.
On top of all of this.....Super Sock Scarefest is starting up on Ravelry. I also moderate the Dozen Shawls in 2013 group on Ravelry. I have a feeling this may be a never ending battle. How does a monogamous knitter stay monogamous?!
Thanks for reading the rambling.
Shannen
OMGoodness!!!!!! That's 32 WIPs!!!! Yes.....I HAZ THEM!!!!!!
i hear you on the pile of WIPs! i still only have one "what happens in vega$" sock, and it's been how long since that KAL?
ReplyDeletei'm trying to make myself finish up a WIP before casting on something new (frogging is also an option, just move it out of the pile one way or another)...so far it's not really working, but i keep pretending that it is...haha