It just occured to me that is is September 2d. (yes, I’m quick!) I have a project that I’ve been working on (and off) for months that is a baby gift. The baby girl it is intended for is due in less than 2 weeks! OY!
I don’t know how I allow myself to get so distracted. There really are too many projects and not enough time.
In the rest of my life, I’ve been working on getting more organized, writing and following a “Rule” (sort of like a schedule, but much more than that), I have finished writing 36 weeks of lesson plans for three children, have gone back to using menus and all sorts of other things. It has proven very helpful to go this route in the rest of my life. I think I need to take a similar approach with knitting.
When did it ever become a good idea to be ruled by whims and fancies? Oh, sure, there can and should be room for spontaneity and last minute fun, but living like that all of the time is counterproductive to, well, a productive life. The rhythms and rhymes of knitting itself, the rules by which it works are time-tested. Slowly and methodically, stitch-by-stitch, following a pattern (and the rules for properly executing it) allows us to take a plain piece of “string” and create something beautiful, useful, practical. Perseverance and sometimes even long-suffering are the keys to success in knitting and in life.
Over the next couple of weeks, I am committed to determining how best to approach my knitting so that I can be successful and not scatterbrained. I am also committed to finishing that gift and, I suppose, much to the momma’s consternation, I hope that the baby stays put until I am done! If I come up with any plan for myself and my whim-directed, ADD Knitting, I’ll share it.
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September 2, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Please do as I suffer from ADD knitting.