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P.D.D.
Project Deficit Disorder.
They don’t even fit in the same picture all at the same time. I suppose an all-encompassing photo would be easier if I weren’t counting the research projects in addition to the knitting projects (books take up a lot of room!), but it’s still a depressing total. I can’t bring myself to finish what’s there, but I don’t want to start anything new either. Meh.
To wit: 4 large sweater-type projects (Kusha Kusha, Mermaid, a sweater that I miscalculated yardage on, and a sweater of my own design that I’ve knit once which is merely a sleeve from completion), 1 pair of socks (not my own, which is part of the problem), a shawl (Icarus, which isn’t complicated enough to be motivating), and 3 lines of research (one of which is the root of the ennui currently afflicting my knitting).
If only research had something akin to frogging…. It might be painful, but at least frogging frees up yarn for another project, and it does so in a utter, irrefutable, complete sense. It’s really hard to scrub research from your brain in quite the same way. Unfortunately, I have the feeling that I’m thisclose to an answer on my research, but until the solution presents itself, my knitting will suffer. Meh, again.
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Erg. I know what you mean. I’m having some knitting ennui myself, but at least I’m currently only knitting *two* sweaters.
Something in research akin to frogging…hmm. Printing out some particularly awful stuff and burning it in the wastepaper basket? Or changing the wording of something you hate into valley girl speak? At least that last one would be amusing.
One sleeve away from completion? You could at least get that one off your plate pretty quickly.
I wish I had some good advice for you on frogging your research… maybe frogging some knitting or doing some spring cleaning will help.