Sixth Sunday
Feb 15th, 2009 by jae
I cannot believe I am going to show you this.
This is my I’ll-get-around-to-this-on-the-sixth-Sunday-of-the-month pile. Also, known as the dear-knitting-gnomes-I-will-pay-anything-to-make-it-go-away pile.
Somewhere in there are WIPS that whisper their sorry state of neglect to me at 2 AM. There is a design idea or two gone horribly wrong. Forgotten yarn adds their mantra to the WIPs. There might be a few project leftovers hanging about – too small to be used on their own but too large to be tossed without regret. Even a childhood stuffed toy bear is buried under all that best of intentions.
But like any mountain, I’m going to move it one shovelful at a time. I’ll probably start with a WIP. I could use the sleep in the early morning hours.
How do you wrangle your stash and UFO’s when they get out of control? Better yet, how do you stop it from getting this bad?
I usually start looking for someplace to donate. A lot of times nursing homes are happy to take stuff for their residents who knit or crochet.
Though I do have a small stash of unused “not big enough but too small” bits of “good” yarn that I can’t part with. That’s when I start looking for patterns that use multiple colors or do some punk knitting and make something completely funky. Miss seeing ya! Couldn’t make Knit MI this year, had to work…damn job. ;-)
What a great idea! I’ll talk to Joan at Heritage – I think she has a local home she donates to.
I miss you guys, too!
Remember Dory from Finding Nemo? As they were traveling she’d sing “Just keep swimming, swimming swimming….”
Well, to handle the WIPs, I “Just keep knitting, knitting knitting…”
It doesn’t look too bad!! I try to be ruthless and unravel the things that are boogelly and then finish the other things one by one. I have to do that soon…
I like your sixth Sunday saying, we say once in a blue moon, or in a month of Sundays!!
I don’t, mine looks pretty much like that except in a bin and each project has it’s own ziploc bag(small to quite large ziploc bag depending on the size of the project)! :)
I re-access! I have just gone through this and this is what happened to my “6th Sunday” stash;
Some went to Mom, she likes to finish simple stuff that is pink ;o)
Some got unraveled, the yarn was too nice but the project lost it’s luster.
Some; a small percentage, got finished (or are getting finished).
Some found their way to the Good Will.
The best part, my load feels lighter and my head feels clearer. :)
I have a problem with UFO’s as well, however I don’t think I have as many because mine are able to guilt me into eventually completing something before I cast on more!