What does one do with unfinished knitting projects? I am a shitty knitter. It is not my medium. I need a sewing machine or something with a motor to drive me to the finish line. The meditative click click of the knitting needles doesn't work for me. I get fed up and throw the whole project to the side. I have a large box in my basement labelled "Unfinished knitting projects to do in your retirement"...A friend of mine wrote that on the box when I was moving.
Here are some of the unfinished projects:
1) A baby blanket in lovely white and yellow cotton yarn. The "baby" this blanket was intended for is now a smoking/swearing teenager.
2) A throw in autumn colours, also in cotton yarn. This one is almost finished. One of the problems is I lost the pattern. I have no idea how to finish the thing. I worked many many hours on this project, one dark and desperate winter years ago.
3) A red mohair scarf. This one was intended for a former mother-in-law. It never got cast off, unlike the relationship.
4) A brownish orange sweater. I didn't get very far on this one. Nice pattern, though. I think I still have it.
5) A blue wool sock. I never managed to turn the heel. This was the obstacle.
Despite all of these failures, I've started a new scarf. Already, I'm hating it! The wool is beautiful alpaca. There is no reason why I should be hating this so much. Why do I keep coming back to knitting when I hate it? What do I do with all of these unfinished projects?
7 comments:
Here you go, Aggie.
Aggie...listen to your heart. You hate knitting because you'd much rather be romping with a nice, young waiter.
I bet with a bit of sewing you could turn these things into monster puppets.
So what I'm hearing is..... don't beat yourself up -- this is performance art potential!
I know how to turn a heel, but you could just sew up one end of the sock, and give it to the Shaggy Waiter as a penis warmer.
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I hate knitting and everything that seems like knitting. No patience. No talent. I DO like knitted stuff, though. Maybe you could channel your creative energies to something that isn't quite so Zen
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