It's finals week, I'm up to my armpits in grading. During my downtime (you have to have some, right?), I've been working on Castlegar (in Quince & Co. Tern) and also finishing up Cassidy (in purple 220 Superwash) for my niece. Castlegar is almost done. Cassidy is all seamed up, waiting for a bath, end-weaving, and buttons.
Today I took a few minutes to go through my lightweight yarn stash (lace, fingering, and sport mostly, though I also have single skeins of DK, worsted, and chunky in these bins). There are several yarns that I feel drawn to knit, but I'm not sure what to do with them yet. I pulled several of them out, looked at them in different lights, dug my fingers into the skeins and played with strands, trying to get a feel for what they'd be like on the needles, and on my eyes, etc. Usually that brings inspiration, but not today. I'm probably just tired, mentally, from the end-of-quarter workload. I will admit, this quarter I am eagerly anticipating a summer off from teaching, and the chance to focus my life around my dissertation for a nice stretch of time. This makes it hard to think about anything else, and right now I have to think about student work, have to get through the next 5 days before I can really relax back into dissertation work. And knitting, apparently. You can't force creativity...so I put the yarn away.
In these same stash bins, I also have a few WIP's hanging about. I'd set them aside to play with the yarn, so they were the last things I looked at while packing everything back into the bins. Several of these really need to be finished, and they're further along than I'd remembered. I have 2 adult sweaters in the works (one for me, one for a friend), a baby sweater, a lace stole, 2 shawlettes (one started within the last week) and a pair of socks. Putting them back into the bins felt like putting millstones around my neck. Knitting should not feel so heavy on the spirit.
Therefore, I have decided that my next "project" will be plural: WIP wrangling. I will only work on unfinished projects either for the next month or until all of these are done, whichever comes first. After one month, I will revisit the issue and decide whether or not I've done sufficient WIP penance.
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