So this weekend was the cure my fall doldrums needed. Shortly after my last (whiny) post, I started to focus solely on the cowl pattern I've been test knitting this month. Suddenly, the number of repeats was getting smaller ... and smaller ... and it made me think about that moment in your project when suddenly, before you know it, the
end is in sight. And if you're like me, you get a second wind and you feel re-energized. A project that used to bore you to tears is
exciting again--no, more than that--
it's become addictive. You can't stop working on it. All you want to do is work on it. And you feel amazing, riding this huge wave of project-success-induced momentum. Am I the only one who feels this way at the end of a project? For lack of a better term, it feels like you hit a tipping point of sorts. Up until I reach it, I tend to feel demoralized because the project feels like it. will. never. end. Clearly, I enjoy the excitement of the promise of a new project--otherwise I wouldn't have a current number of abandoned WIPs that reaches the double digits! After the initial excitement fades, I lose some interest until I reach this tipping point and I get excited by the prospect of having the yummy finished object to wear/love/enjoy.
What was amazing about this weekend was that all my projects reached tipping point status. I finished knitting
and blocked the pieces of my test knit cowl:
I got past the mid-way point knitting the last border section of my Ardor shawl:
And I finished piecing and cutting the last set of quilt blocks I need to (hopefully!) finish my quilt top:
2 comments:
You go girl! I am definitely driven by the thought of a finished project. I get in some crazy zone where that's all I can focus on. I also get that way when trying to pick a new project to start, though. So that can be trouble, too.
Yup, me too on the starting a new project phase ... I constantly have "castonitis," ha!
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