Square Root of Knitting

The struggle for starting a project and than moving onto a new project before the last project is finished has caused me to become creative.  In getting down to the square root of my knitting problem, I came up with a unique solution.  I would knit a 7" x 7" square at a time.  Each day I have taken to doing this unusual method.  I'm now finding that I am slowly finishing my projects at one square at a time.  Eventually I will have a finished blanket or shawl at this rate.  For me, it has brought a beginning and an ending to the projects that I am doing.

As I go down the road in my skill in knitting, I will eventually come to the point of actually knitting a sweater.  But for now, the pleasure of the slow and simple knitting project is what I need.  The other pleasure is the practice of the knit stitch and gaining of speed while doing it.  It also gives me practice in finding out what types of yarn do when knitted by different size needles.  I'm slowly starting to have an understanding what different types of yarn do under different types of situations.  As I measure the square and match the next one with the last, the idea of counting each stitch slowly starts to be understood.  In my skill of knitting, I'm becoming more aware of how to read a pattern.  I'm not quite there yet, but I'm slowly getting there.    

Shoe Strings and More String Theories

Once I have reach the goal of what kind of project to do.  It is at that point that the gathering together of the materials to start with.  I tend to function under a shoe string.  The choices of how much to buy becomes quite limited.  As I head to the different stores looking for the raw materials to start my project with, I wonder what will actually catch my fancy.  The notion of what I actually can afford also comes to mind.  Generally it requires that I buy enough yarn or string to start any project.  Naturally there is the fear that the type or color of yarn that I want may not be there.  At that point, I find a fallback point of another project.

Once I have established the project and the type and color of yarn, I proceed foward to buying what I need.  The assumption here is that I have already decided the type and size of the project.  The moment that the understanding of where I am going comes into view, the shoe string effect takes place.  The shoe string effect is one of thoes effects that have an extream impact on how quickly any project gets done.  The only escape from it...well, come to think of it there actually isn't any escape.