WIP Audit

Sat on the sofa I was surrounded by a scattering of half worked nothings. A micro crochet granny triangle I half heartedly imagined as a large cotton shawl that would be perfect to keep the sun off my shoulders once the scorching summer came back around. A nearly finished sock that was made with the most perfect sock yarn I'd ever found sat stitches agape waiting for me to finish working the tedious Kitchener technique, I'd lost all interest once I realised my decision to skip the decrease before working the toe had been a grave mistake. An amigurumi doll that had so far gone really well until the decreasing for the shoulders came a few rounds too late and in the wrong colour yarn.

Uninspired by my works which felt too much like roads to nowhere, I felt a familiar overwhelm. So many projects, so little time, so little drive to finish them.

It was time for a WIP amnesty, I dug deep into the shelves that held my craft supplies and pulled out all the literally shelved WIP's. Some I knew were there and others I had entirely forgotten about until I found them. I gathered them all up and took them to my living room.

Here I enter into evidence my WIP amnesty I joked to my partner recalling on the many law and crime drama's we've watched. Wait, can you enter items from an amnesty into evidence surely not, isn't that the point of an amnesty. Either way, it was time to take responsibility, here I enter into evidence my catalogue of WIPS.

There were by my standards quite a few, a chunky false rib beanie that for some reason hurt my hands to work on, a DK weight moss stitch blanket I'd started a couple of years ago but liked working on when I was between inspiring projects, a cotton shawl I was knitting with a yarn that reminded me of watermelon and a patchwork piece I was hoping to make into a tote back until I started struggling to make gauge with the foundation colour.

They were admittedly just the larger projects I'd taken on, the things I couldn't finish in a week or two. I had learnt a while ago that the smaller a project the greater the chance I would finish it. I simply have a project size threshold and that's okay, I think that we probably all do. Small to medium projects tend to make it off my needles and hooks but larger ones fall to the wayside.

But I had them, here, half done. I had to make some decisions, what will stay, what will go and where can I put them that isn't the consumable section of my craft room.

Going through them I decided the false rib beanie was for frogging, the project was small and quick enough that if I had any positive feelings towards it, it would have been finished by now. Everything else got to WIP another day, I'll work on those projects for another wee while and see what I enjoy working on.

I enjoyed the audit, there are a few projects from on it that are on thinner ice and may not make it through the next one, but I was able to see those projects, organise them, and most importantly remove any that no longer worked for me.

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