Monogamy

I don't know how it happened. It wasn't sudden but has taken place over the last year or so but what's done is done. I have become a monogamous knitter.

When I first started knitting, almost three years ago, I started off with one project. A scarf of course. I think there's a law someplace that says all people who start knitting must start with a scarf. But I digress.

I started with a scarf then another. When I really got into the swing of things I would do a couple of projects at a time. I'd have a scarf and a hat on the needles. I found, as I became more proficient, that I'd have two main projects that I'd work on, one being a knit that I'd have to pay a lot of attention to and the other would be something easy, all in stockinette, that I could knit while watching television in bed at night with Glenn. Sometimes something would get started and then put aside for some reason. Either I'd get stuck or bored with it so it would get tucked away into my yarn cabinet.

Last year, I believe it was around this time, I decided to fish out all my unfinished projects and get them done. It didn't take long because there were only a few but I got them all finished up. Initially it was a pain in the ass to get this done because I had to work through whatever reason I'd had for putting these specific projects aside. Once they were done, though, I had a great feeling of accomplishment but also a feeling that I didn't want to work on so many projects I didn't enjoy.

This past year I really became a sock knitter more than anything else. And I noticed that I like to knit just one pair of socks at a time, oddly enough. I don't know if it's that I'm more selective in my pattern choices, picking things that are easy for me or things I really enjoy knitting, or the fact that doing a pair of socks brings a sense of a finished item with each sock done. Whatever it is, I've gone from being a polygamous to a monogamous knitter.