I didn’t make any firm resolutions for the new year. I know from past experience that I am just no good at keeping them up. For me, change is a gradual thing – I can’t change basic personality traits (and weaknesses) overnight, I need to work at them. The closest I got to making resolutions for this year were in regards to my knitting. A wish not to buy more yarn until I needed it, and a wish not to cast on something new until I had finished any WIPs. I only have one WIP (that I’m aware of!) so it shouldn’t be that difficult really …
WRONG!
I have already bought two lots of yarn, though one of them I do actually need – discontinued Patons Velvet DK in white, for some Shaun The Sheep toys I’ve been asked to make!
I’m just about resisting not casting on anything new, it’s really hard though. My WIP is a sweater for my youngest son. He’s quite big for his age so the sweater is quite large. And it’s going soooo slow! It’s not a hard pattern by any means. It’s actually quite good for times when you want something you don’t have to concentrate so hard on, yet with a simple two-stitch cable to stop it being completely mind-numbing.
My difficulty, I think, is with the size of it. I’ve been so used to making baby garments and small toys. Rarely did an item take more than a week to complete. Yet this sweater has been on the needles since October 2012! It’s become one of those projects that you just keep putting off … I had really hoped to complete it for Christmas 2012, but obviously I failed!
Now my son has set me a deadline – if it’s not finished by the end of January I should pay a forfeit! At the moment, a forfeit doesn’t seem so bad … :O
If I don’t get a wiggle on, my son won’t get any use from the sweater – winter will be over and he’ll grow too big for it for next winter. Maybe posting updates on here will give me the kick-start I need to get to work on it? Who knows … Right now I am much preferring to spend many hours on WordPress reading what other people are up to and admiring their wonderful creations …
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