Between Tweed, the new Interweave Knits and the new Interweave Crochet (and, umm, my large-ish WIP and Queue in Ravelry), I have a veritable army of projects. It's hard to focus on any one project without some form of deadline, especially once the project has become less desirable.
Over the last few months I have realized that one of the things that seems to make me less likely to finish a project is picking up stitches. It's not a problem for a pair of socks. It's a small area and I am only trying to get a max of 18 stitches in there. For something with a shawl collar? It's a couple of hundred stitches on diagonals or some other more difficult configuration. Of course, I like these patterns, which is why I knit or bought them in the first place.
So, I want to make (not putting these in Ravelry yet) the following in no particular order:
- Baby hat (I have a pattern, but there is a chance that the recipient could read about it);
- Butterscotch Cardigan;
- Roped Shell (the one with the cabled edging from the latest IK)
- Scottish Isles Pullover
Those are just the new projects. It's only 4, but in a month or so there will be a new Knitty out and the process will start all over again. Of course, there are probably more than 20 items in my queue (I'm in denial, so I'm not going to look)....
How on earth do you pick what you want to work on next?
