One Square at A Time

My daily routine consists of doing knitting as I rise.  My breakfast is at my side as I knit.  I find that if I do that each day will bring me closer to a finished project.  In my scheduling, I have put into place the idea that I would do one square a day.  I have organized my day in accordance to this thought.  Each day I work at knitting one square at a time.  With the thought that I would make one square at a time, I have also given thought to what I am making. 

When I first started knitting, I went randomly and did not take time to look at what I was doing.  I let the knitting take me where it wanted.  But I found that the choices of yarn and the color was too random and I was basically losing interest in the projects I was making.  The excitment that I was looking for was going out of each project that I started.  In order to keep my excitment I moved to a place of organization.  I began to schedule my projects.  The picture above is those organized moments that go into making decisions in the project, in terms of the size.  The kind of yarn and color is also taken into consideration.  I have tried to build a complete grounding in the planning of each project.  The doing of the planning has added to the excitment of the making of any project. 

As I now decide on each project, I plan each knitted item carefully.  I no longer randomly knit without meaning.  I function under focus and planning.  The fun is there in the planning.  I now also try to document everything I do.  Every project has a beginning date and an ending date.  The types of needles I use is noted and every yarn that I use is also noted.  It also means that I am able to afford the amount of yarn as I plan ahead.  In this day and age with stores closing, the supplier could disappear at any time.  I have several projects that I started that now have to be changed because the supplier has gone.  I often spend my time researching places to find the particular type of yarn that I require for a given project.  Because of the shoe string situation that I have found myself, making sure that the supplier will be there tomorrow is required.  Each store I enter into, I wonder if they will exist tomorrow.  Several of my projects that can not be changed have sat waiting for me to find a new place to find that type of yarn.  At that point, I have taken to the internet to look for places to buy that particular type of yarn.  It means hours of exploration of websites of yarn companies and stores that supply a particular type of yarn.  The fun and excitment of going out to explore the locations I have looked up in the Net moves my day.  So I end my day as I start, knitting and researching for the next knitting project.