I know that I want to finish and wear some of the things that I am currently working on.
I know that I really want to work on and finish and wear a project I have dreamed about knitting for a long time.
(My version of the Scandinavian Star Vest by Cheryl Oberle)
And so many more things in the WIPs bin that are waiting to be worked on. I want them all.
So with all these lovely things in my WIPs bin, why do I keep obsessing about new things I want to knit? Because I am a knitter. That is why.
I spent the weekend working on almost nothing. I did a wee bit on my almost a Sun Dog sweater (the middle photo). It is really starting to look like a sweater. All these tiny bits of knitting on it do add up.
What I did spend a lot of time on was looking at stitch pattern books. I have so many lovely pattern books and occasionally when I can't knit, I wander through them and dream of knitting this pattern or that pattern and which of my many yarns I will use to make them. This weekend I pulled out the Japanese pattern books and just dreamed. A thousand tiny doors to the many ways of putting together the movements of hands and needles and yarn. A simple basic sweater shape and any of the hundreds of patterns? Yes. I want to knit them all. Doing this is kind of a mistake if you are trying to be a monogamous knitter so you can have finished things.
And then I spent time going through the sweaters I have favourited on Ravelry. I don't even have to describe that. My favourites list is a whole box of unfulfilled wants. There are so many beautiful inspiring, wonderful patterns just waiting for me to knit them. Going through your Favourites list is a mistake if you are trying to be a monogamous knitter.
My thumb is not quite ready for me to get back to long lovely hours of knitting just yet but it is doing a lot better. It's a good thing that today I have lots of household chores to catch up on to keep me busy. It's a good thing that I have some long underwear and some tights waiting to be cut out in my sewing room. Maybe I will stop dreaming and wishing for all the things I am not knitting.
You just never know. I might just give in to my dreams and desires and cast on something new. I'd be okay with that too.
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