04.01.2005 | 19:52
How to knit faster and finish a lot of projects
Inspired by the comments to the previous entry, here's my advice on how to knit faster and finish a lot of projects.
1: Do not get a life. I repeat, do not get a life. It's much more fun to watch TV all night and knit.
2. If you do accidentally get a life, try to get a knitting life, so you can watch TV all night with your friends and knit.
3. If you would happen to leave your house, take your knitting with you. Local buses, local trains, trams and the underground may be a bit crowded but knitting can happen. Also travel far so you have more time to kill by knitting. Cars, long distant buses and trains, and boats are good, planes can be a bit tricky. (Some people report having no problems with knitting needles in planes, but you cannot be sure.)
4. Cleaning, what's that? Housework is for husbands. If your husband should have other responsibilities (such as work or studying), use the dust bunnies as decorative elements or pretend you just got some more cats.
5. Knit with thick yarn. Knit simple things. Instant gratification is good. Warm sweaters are nice. Simple sweaters keep you as warm as the complicated ones.
6. Plan your own projects. That's when you don't have to spend time to trying to understand patterns someone else wrote. If your project should be a disaster, it's still a finished project! Just photograph it from a flattering angle (or from a distance) and rip it. Nobody needs to know... (You might just have bought a lot of the same yarn.)
7. Knit something small at times. They do count as projects, too!
8. Knit something for your friends. That's when you have deadlines. Deadlines are the best inspiration. Deadlines make you finish. You want to keep that promise, don't you? Just think about the joy of giving, too, and that when you knit for someone else, you get bored with being generous and hurry to finish the next project for yourself.
9. Knit in the round. The less you have seams, the faster the project goes. You also avoid the irritatingly boring purl stitches in most cases and just knit, knit, knit...
10. This may sound like a good advice, but do not start a new project until you have finished the current one. Startitis is bad. Finishing is good. Knit with pure rage and anger you got from boredom or knit and cry, just finish the second sleeve and sew those parts together! By the way, socks and scarves do not count as a new project. Not even big scarves. They do count as finished projects, though.
Now you can guess which ones of my advice I took myself and which I didn't... Or maybe I'm just a collective bunch of people like Minna suspected. You can never know... I'll never reveal my true identities... identity! Bwahahaha! (Insert scary music here. Or possibly something from Austin Powers' Dr. Evil scenes.)
Oh, there's a sleeve in the picture above. Aren't black nearly finished sleeves photogenic?
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Kommentit - Comments
Well, now I REALLY have to go start something since my sock/scarf/scarf- projects doesnt count. That whould mean I only have one thing going. How unergonomic of me!
Moi!
Very cool list! I hope also that buying yarn for a scarf or socks does not count..as I am on a yarn diet...
I'm glad you like the list! :-) Now I guess I should follow my own advice and finish the second sleeve. Or I could start a scarf... Yes, I'm suffering from startitis, but I hope I can handle it.
I like this list!
Instant gratification is underrated in the world, as is startitis (did you now it's not a disease, it's a condition?)
I'll save that list... and send it to everybody I know who knit ;)