UFOs Sunday, October 21, 2007 |
Today, I relieved myself from the commitment of finishing the mystery lace stoles I had started.
One of them seemed like it was far too complicated for me to focus on. It took me a full hour to finish about 2 rows. I'm only on row 9 of chart 1 (which is 89 rows)! The group itself is up to chart 4 now, so there's just no hope of me keeping up with this KAL.
The other stole is lovely enough, but the lace design is fairly simple and I'm not sure if I like how it's looking all in all. To be honest, I haven't even cast on for it, I've just been watching everyone else progress.
So, both projects are on the back burner now. It's been bugging me that I haven't had much desire to work on these KALs and any time I had the urge to work on a different project, I felt guilty for not working on the stoles instead.
I've been through this before. If I try to force myself to knit something, I will resent the project and refuse to do it. It's more important to me to knit whenever I simply get the urge to knit, and on whichever project strikes my fancy at that moment.
It means I have a lot of UFOs at any given time, but it often seems like it's the process of knitting that matters to me more. It's great when I get a finished item out of it all, but there's no sense in forcing myself through a project if I've gotten bored of it, or if I'm suddenly more interested in trying something else. I can always stash it away for later or eventually frog it if I'm never going to work on it again.
So, today I picked up some hand-dyed superwash sock yarn out of my stash. I received it in a trade a few months back in exchange for my Boye Needlemaster set (I purchased a Knitpicks Options set and enjoy it far more than the Needlemaster). I have two hanks of a red/orange color and 2 of a blue/green/brown/tan color.
I cast on for my very first sock with the red/orange yarn. It's the Roll Top Socks pattern here. I like ankle socks and I thought the pattern might go quicker and be a good choice for my first socks. So far it's going well, but I'm not to the heel yet. We'll see. :)
One of them seemed like it was far too complicated for me to focus on. It took me a full hour to finish about 2 rows. I'm only on row 9 of chart 1 (which is 89 rows)! The group itself is up to chart 4 now, so there's just no hope of me keeping up with this KAL.
The other stole is lovely enough, but the lace design is fairly simple and I'm not sure if I like how it's looking all in all. To be honest, I haven't even cast on for it, I've just been watching everyone else progress.
So, both projects are on the back burner now. It's been bugging me that I haven't had much desire to work on these KALs and any time I had the urge to work on a different project, I felt guilty for not working on the stoles instead.
I've been through this before. If I try to force myself to knit something, I will resent the project and refuse to do it. It's more important to me to knit whenever I simply get the urge to knit, and on whichever project strikes my fancy at that moment.
It means I have a lot of UFOs at any given time, but it often seems like it's the process of knitting that matters to me more. It's great when I get a finished item out of it all, but there's no sense in forcing myself through a project if I've gotten bored of it, or if I'm suddenly more interested in trying something else. I can always stash it away for later or eventually frog it if I'm never going to work on it again.
So, today I picked up some hand-dyed superwash sock yarn out of my stash. I received it in a trade a few months back in exchange for my Boye Needlemaster set (I purchased a Knitpicks Options set and enjoy it far more than the Needlemaster). I have two hanks of a red/orange color and 2 of a blue/green/brown/tan color.
I cast on for my very first sock with the red/orange yarn. It's the Roll Top Socks pattern here. I like ankle socks and I thought the pattern might go quicker and be a good choice for my first socks. So far it's going well, but I'm not to the heel yet. We'll see. :)
Labels: knitting, lace, process vs. product, socks, UFOs
