Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Multitasking...it's not really for me

A few weeks ago I had three wips going at once. I was working on the turkey, a kidster hat, and the big cable bag. I have to say it was a little strange. Me, your ever faithful monogamous knitter was cheating again. At first, I said to myself, "so this is what all the other knitters are like". Then it dawned on me that having multiple projects was not for me.

One reason was that I was trying to knit at times I don't normally knit. It was getting in the way of keeping up with the other non-knitting things that needed to get done around here. I guess having more projects going made me feel pressured to get something, anything finished. The other reason that struck me is that I spend the whole day multitasking between kidsters, school schedules, and basically keeping everyone (ok, mostly me) sane. It wasn't working for me to try to multitask in my knitting. It was stressing me out! Now I am thankfully back to one project. I hope to keep it that way for a while since I could use a little relaxation. I'm off now to go sit and knit on my one project for a while.

4 comments:

Julia said...

Ah yes, I'm exactly the same. One project at a time definitely for me...but i know we are in the minority!

Knittinreed said...

I like having a couple of projects going at one (operative word: couple, as in 2). But my Mom is a monogomous knitter and just cannot understand why I am not.

Nina said...

Oh, I just can't work on just one thing at a time! Nonono, I have to have at least two WIP's to choose from. So if I get bored with one project, I can work on something else for a change. But I try limit my WIP's to three at a time. :)

Two Cables and a Frapp said...

I too am pretty much a single-project knitter. I tried working on about 5 projects at once last year and believe me, it was ugly. I need to keep my knitting under control, not all over the place. I just can't do it !!!