[i don't know how i have managed to blog daily this month--hope i'm not expected to blog that often by any readers i've been lucky enough to have so far..]
i had a little bit of that finished knit syndrome, a feeling that i haven't got anything to do now that i'm done with my most recent project. sure, there are four wips on the shelf waiting for attention but i just didn't feel like touching those. i wanted the excitement of a brand new project! so here we are with a little grey thing on my little circulars, a simple little experimental wip based on one of my design sketches.
i had a little bit of that finished knit syndrome, a feeling that i haven't got anything to do now that i'm done with my most recent project. sure, there are four wips on the shelf waiting for attention but i just didn't feel like touching those. i wanted the excitement of a brand new project! so here we are with a little grey thing on my little circulars, a simple little experimental wip based on one of my design sketches.
as a sort of beginner knitter and someone very new to publishing any knitting designs of my own, i feel like i run the big risk of reinventing the wheel or stepping on someone's toes in coming out with anything less than a super intricate pattern involving never-ever seen before patterns and inventions and the like, which to put it lightly has discouraged me from publishing anything in the first place.
after some thought i realize that it may be a little silly to think that on my own i will design the exact copy of something that already exists if i've never looked that that existing design before so..hey. where's the trouble or harm? at worst, i suppose there will just be another version of a look that fellow knitters can make for themselves. so a-designing i will go. hopefully someone will like what i come up with, and even make a really awesome adjustment of it to suit their tastes or needs. that's an exciting part of sharing a design imo~
after some thought i realize that it may be a little silly to think that on my own i will design the exact copy of something that already exists if i've never looked that that existing design before so..hey. where's the trouble or harm? at worst, i suppose there will just be another version of a look that fellow knitters can make for themselves. so a-designing i will go. hopefully someone will like what i come up with, and even make a really awesome adjustment of it to suit their tastes or needs. that's an exciting part of sharing a design imo~
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| you can click through for the listing for that new washcloth btw <3 |
to throw in a different topic out of the blue, i've noticed in my two months of being a knitter that my stash has been growing quite a bit, even if i'm knitting pretty steadily and finishing at least a thing or two a week. so i'm trying a little experiment to limit my yarn/notions spending, by only allowing a purchase after finishing ten projects, instead of just letting myself fall prey to those wonderful little knitpicks sales emails or a gorgeous colorway someone's blogged today. so far i've got three out of ten projects down, with the 4th on the way!
i'm optimistic here about this little plan here, and feel that if i don't make it to ten before ordering more skeins, i'll at least be a bit more aware of what i do and don't really need to have right now in my stash.
do you have any ways to curb your yarn buying? anything that's worked? anything that's absolutely failed? is it a worry at all for you, or is a big yarn stash to be welcomed? i'd love to hear how other knitters do it!