Goals

Now there is a broad topic! Specifically I’m referring to knitting goals. I keep saying that I’m the slowest knitter on the planet, which probably isn’t true, but I do tend to dither around a lot starting new projects and not finishing anything.

I finished Quill in somewhat record time, for me. What was different? I planned ahead, and had a target date. Duh. It shouldn’t surprise me that this actually is effective, I suppose, since it works in every other area of my life that requires some process getting to completion.

I have way too many projects going at the same time. So it’s time to whittle them down to a more manageable number. I’m going to work on these things, and just pretend that all the other ones don’t exist for now. In particular, I have five different lace projects going at once, which mostly means I don’t get anything done on any of them.

Here’s the plan, in categories:

Sock:

Those are for John. I have one foot left to do and those are done. I’d like to get these finished by the end of this week.

Mindless Knitting:

Hitchhiker, for me. That is about as mindless as it gets. I’m giving this a 2 week deadline.

Sweater:

I have the back and part of one front done. This isn’t mindless at all, so that’s a good thing. I’m giving myself a deadline of September 1st on this. I have a warm woolly sweater in progress as well, and I’d like to get started on that before it gets cold around here.

Lace: No photo, since this one is a surprise project. It needs to be done by the end of October.

Bonus Project:

This has no deadline. This is the “potato chip” project. If I’m on track to get everything else done, I can do a square or two of this. I never thought I’d say this, but knitting sock yarn squares is a blast.

So let’s see how this works, eh? And remind me to not start any new projects until I have some of this stuff caught up. The exception is socks. I can start a new sock when I’ve finished a pair (two pair, actually, since I have another pair already started).

Author: Lorette

My name is Lorette. I learned to knit in 1999, and took up spinning in 2009. I'm a physician specializing in internal medicine, and live in the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy my blog!

5 thoughts on “Goals”

  1. So I ended up retiring early on July 1. Since then I have decided I hate the word *goals* and have banished it, lol

  2. I am no longer calling it “mindless knitting” – it is ZOOM knitting…. useful for endless committee meetings, webinars and all those times where notes are optional

  3. Like you, I have many projects on the needles at a time. Some have target dates. Others, mostly projects for me, do not. I can’t tell you how many projects are in the hibernation bin. Since all of the yarn festivals are cancelled this year, my stash acquisitions have slowed. I am working from home and have devised a plan to cycle through them. I have a mindless project to knit while connected for an online meeting. My most complicated project is my through-the-week evening knitting. A third project is my weekend project. I have a fourth project that is my take-along project I keep near my purse, but that doesn’t see much action. By rule, at least one of the 3 active projects must be a WIP pulled out of hibernation.

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