My knitting has been in a bit of a funk lately. Call it boredom, call it the ho hums, call it ennui. (great word, ennui, even if I have a hard time pronouncing it!) I just don’t see a pattern that is really firing me up. My knitting is just “eh.”
I love the yarn I have in my stash. I take it out (pet it a little) and look at it and troll the pattern search on Ravelry to find new patterns. I have spent hours looking for that “just right” project. I’m just not finding what I want. Since I can’t even tell you what I want, it might be hard to find what it is that I want to knit. Something simple, but not so simple that I will get bored 1/3 of the way through. Something classy. Something that ideally uses part of my crazy large stash of amazing yarn.
I took knitting on our trip to Florida with high hopes of knitting on the plane, in the conference, on the buses, and while waiting in line. I did knit at the conference and on the plane, but I really didn’t get as much done as I would have hoped. The extreme heat and humidity might have had something to do with this. The general awesomeness of Disney World might have had something else to do with this. For the most part our waiting in lines was minimized by some strategies I used and even if we did have a wait there were too many fun things to look at. Most nights I was too tired to do more than one row on a shawl.
I need inspiration. I need to fall in love with a pattern. I need a pattern that brings the sparkle to my eye and makes me say, “ooooh!” I need help. What patterns are you in love with right now? Leave me a comment – help a sista out!
Knitting Up North 