Wednesday, October 04, 2006
You're my obsession...
...what do you want me to be to make you knit with me?
I was talking with my friend Steve recently (on one of those endless drives to or from work that take over 2 hours and probably make us dislike each other a little)... Steve is a pretty creative dude and has a useless art degree just like me. Our discussion arrived around the fact that he's avoided creative endeavors for awhile (he paints, among other things) because he gets an unhealthy obsession every time he starts up a project and ends up losing sleep and what-not.
I thought to myself... gosh, I wish I could be like that. I think I'm the complete opposite. I give up too easily and have so many half finished or never started projects in the works....
And then I realized, after spending the whole weekend knitting, that I have a pretty unhealthy obsession with knitting at the moment. This has happened before with other stuff (remember mini art-quilt-o-rama last fall???) I have spent waaaay too much money on knitting supplies (and probably some of it is duplicates of the crap I bought several years ago, the last time I had a knitting obsession 3 or 4 years ago).
This time has been very focused. Even though several of the things I have made haven't turned out well, I've actually finished them (that is if you can count 1/2 a pair of socks finished.... I do, so SUCK IT), and I have looked at them as a learning process and a gateway to future wonderfulness. I dreamed about Kitchener grafting last night (would have really helped if my dream had given me some insight on how to do it correctly).
In the past 3 weeks I have knitted (and crocheted because I've been doing that too): 2 shawls (one of them I'm going to felt), a hat, several cupcakes, and a very weird cabled footie/sock.
I keep thinking about merino and cashmere and it's making me anxious. I read Knitting Rules and actually purchased a knitting magazine. I have plans for some purses and briefly contemplated a sweater. But I really want to make some socks. I ordered some Latern Moon ebony DPNs in size #1 and Nancy Bush's sock books (that I really couldn't afford) so I can work on that.
Hindsight being 20/20 I think my obsessions tend to be born out of the upswing from depression. I was pretty down in the dumps the last few weeks. I gotta keep some perspective though. And not let all this knitting paraphenalia go to waste.
Anyone need a knitted cozy for something???
I was talking with my friend Steve recently (on one of those endless drives to or from work that take over 2 hours and probably make us dislike each other a little)... Steve is a pretty creative dude and has a useless art degree just like me. Our discussion arrived around the fact that he's avoided creative endeavors for awhile (he paints, among other things) because he gets an unhealthy obsession every time he starts up a project and ends up losing sleep and what-not.
I thought to myself... gosh, I wish I could be like that. I think I'm the complete opposite. I give up too easily and have so many half finished or never started projects in the works....
And then I realized, after spending the whole weekend knitting, that I have a pretty unhealthy obsession with knitting at the moment. This has happened before with other stuff (remember mini art-quilt-o-rama last fall???) I have spent waaaay too much money on knitting supplies (and probably some of it is duplicates of the crap I bought several years ago, the last time I had a knitting obsession 3 or 4 years ago).
This time has been very focused. Even though several of the things I have made haven't turned out well, I've actually finished them (that is if you can count 1/2 a pair of socks finished.... I do, so SUCK IT), and I have looked at them as a learning process and a gateway to future wonderfulness. I dreamed about Kitchener grafting last night (would have really helped if my dream had given me some insight on how to do it correctly).
In the past 3 weeks I have knitted (and crocheted because I've been doing that too): 2 shawls (one of them I'm going to felt), a hat, several cupcakes, and a very weird cabled footie/sock.
I keep thinking about merino and cashmere and it's making me anxious. I read Knitting Rules and actually purchased a knitting magazine. I have plans for some purses and briefly contemplated a sweater. But I really want to make some socks. I ordered some Latern Moon ebony DPNs in size #1 and Nancy Bush's sock books (that I really couldn't afford) so I can work on that.
Hindsight being 20/20 I think my obsessions tend to be born out of the upswing from depression. I was pretty down in the dumps the last few weeks. I gotta keep some perspective though. And not let all this knitting paraphenalia go to waste.
Anyone need a knitted cozy for something???
fear the freakish knitted objects that are borne from my knitting needles
// posted by Stephanie Cake @ 10/04/2006 05:13:00 PM 
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