Over the weekend I planned for the future… planning as in ordering bulbs to plant. This is the kind of future planning I think I like best, a colorful promise of delight after a long, brown winter!
And that got me thinking about what else is a promise of delight.
A big one on my list used to be sweater knitting… cast on, invest some a good bit of time knitting, and before you know it a new sweater appears! (or apparently not, in my case…)
Perhaps you all can see where this is going… if you think back to my last sweater project… and add in the new sweater project. And you end up in a place that I found myself in over the weekend… how much more time will I invest in this sweater that I am not sure will work in the end?
One sweater is still waiting to be taken apart and “unraveled”… do I really want to add another sweater to that pile?
Sigh… so the new sweater is going to take a bit of a time out. Time out for me to contemplate a bit longer… before I will probably just unravel it all.
Sometimes the promise of delight is in knowing when to quit!
Success does not lie in sticking to things. It lies in picking the right thing to stick to and quitting the rest. — Annie Duke
I hope your Monday is full of actual delightful things…like a fall tinged morning, the sound of the school bus rambling through the neighborhood, and a steaming warm cup of coffee!
See you all back here on Wednesday!
Oh! Sorry about your knitting woes. But you are so right…knowing when to quit is key…something I am still learning. I am loving the feel of Fall in the air and now it is time to pour another cup of coffee!! Here’s hoping you can find delight in the week and not just sweater angst….
time out always works for me!! I have been knitting so slowly these days and the benefit has been not having any flares but my progress is not as fast as I thought I would be.
I had thoughts along those same lines! I thought I remembered your last sweater as some sort of very heavy bathrobe. Your sweaters are often quite lovely but there is a reason I knit so many Hitchhikers. Wishing you all the best with lots of delight in the present!
And picture Dale driving that school bus! It sounds like it might be time to cut your losses on your sweater and pick something else to spend your time knitting. Gnomes are great because they don’t have to fit!
I hope the sweater takes its time in time out to consider what it’s done and get its act together! In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the beautiful fall weather we’re having (before it gets hot again) and find something else delightful.
I started a shawl over the weekend & am having the same thoughts about whether to continue… not sure it’s working. I keep hearing Kym’s voice in my head about “real estate,” but I think I might be heading toward a swamp. 😉
I love the quote and think I need to paste it on my forehead or maybe my forearm where I could actually read it! Last night I frogged the mauve-y pink summer top – for a variety of reasons. It was a delight not to feel like I needed to be working on it. Best of luck with however the sweater time-out ends.
I think it’s actually wise . . . to ponder for awhile. Especially when things aren’t working out the way we wanted/hoped they would. It seems I’ve been ripping out more than I’ve been knitting this year, myself. I’m starting to be . . . okay with that. (And that is a GREAT quote.) Life is just too short to waste it being frustrated about projects that just aren’t going quite right, y’know?