I have found the beginning of a new pair of socks, or any project, that I feel a certain anxiety, one that is part dread at worrying if it will work, and part excited anticipation of making something new and wonderful.
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| I finished these socks recently and was disappointed that they were a shade too long for me to wear. |
Then towards the middle part of the project, I find tiredness, an ennui, a boredom related to the repetition of stitches and/or color.
The end of a pair of socks can be filled with closure and pride in a job well done. It can also be filled with sadness and lost at the ending of a relationship with this work. And if there is no other project waiting to be done, anxiety at having nothing to look forward to.
I have felt all this in the socks projects I have done. I have felt them in other projects, even non-knitting ones.
Right now, I am in between sock projects. I have finished a pair of blender socks and have no idea of what to knit next.
Another blender sock?
Perhaps a new pattern found in a book or on a website?
And which yarn will I use?
I feel like I'm stuck at a knitting crossroads. Do I sell my needles to the Knitting Crossroads Demon?
What do you do when you are creatively stuck? Or have you never been? Do you have any comments on what I should knit next?
