#procrastiknit

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

You reblogged a dewy spiderweb photoset the other day and commented you made a shawl inspired by that once. Tell us about that, do you have pictures? 👀

I DO ACTUALLY okay so like here's the thing you gotta Understand about me, i get. Intense. about gifts. and when i had my Defining The Relationship conversation with my long-distance then-friend now-datemate (of now over four years!! i love them so much, i'm so happy :D) it happened in february of 2020, so uh. all of our travel plans were pretty immediately kaput due to covid. which meant that i was getting returns on interest on my pent-up first-meeting-in-person, and it had to go SOMEWHERE

so i uh. might. maybe. have gone slightly overboard making them a courting gift, while we waited.

they'd started using spider imagery for me as an endearment after a while of seeing the kinds of stuff i liked to make, so when i found this pattern on ravelry i got a little obsessed with it because doesn't it just vibe like a dewy spiderweb, though??

i had a good couple skeins of this really lovely llama/silk blend yarn (now tragically discontinued, RIP to juniper moon stargazer) that i had intended to use to make a cardigan for someone who ultimately blacklisted herself from my knitworthy-people list, but that's besides the point, because the POINT IS that i found myself staring at the ~1800 yards of it that i had, and the little jars of vintage wooden beads i'd picked up at a flea market ages ago, and uh. look. they didn't NOT remind me of a cute lil jumping spider when i sat them next to each other, is the thing, and the yarn was SO cozy soft, and uh

it turned out B I G

out of all that yardage i literally only had LESS THAN A FOOT left after the bind-off, so i think i pretty successfully won that round of yarn chicken XD

i ended up going even MORE overboard with gifts when i did finally get to meet them in person, because in the meantime i'd made a cedar box with fancy grain matching to put the shawl in and decided THAT wasn't enough so i packed mugs, looseleaf tea, teaspoon measure, animal tea infusers, a family friend's homemade bread, homemade plum chutney, three kinds of cheese (two of which were from the dairy farm i worked at for a year), a cutting board to put all that on, fancy chocolates from the airport, a worksheet with measurements for a sweater to make them later, and a few other odds and ends, along with pillaging the landscaping around the hotel for greenery accents XD

and the funny part is, the way the room was laid out you couldn't immediately see the bed from right inside the doorway, it's around the corner to the left, so when they walked through the door and saw all this and were like "is this your version of a trail of rose petals leading to the bed? XD" i was like "wellllllll,"

"maybe a little bit yeah :3"

and they just cracked up XD

[bembely]

So I discovered that I can make a bulky mitten in one hour from start to finish and now I have mitten fever?

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

.,,.,.okay but. what if. i DID cast on a cardigan instead of the zillion other gift projects on deck first

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I LOVE MAKING THINGS FOR PEOPLE

[ladychraelix]

the moral of the story is DO NOT PROCRASTIKNIT

[vanderblog]

blog post 2 | procrastiknitting

How do we arrive upon the decision to commit to something to its completion? Decision paralysis shows itself in even the smallest tasks of everyday life; a half-eaten sandwich in the fridge, a basket of socks to be folded, a fitness app hardly opened. One could think of life as a balancing act. The angst of setting new goals against the burden of finishing old ones.

Thusly I have found this dilemma invading my creativity. I originally picked up knitting as a way to avoid stress altogether, but, alas, I find myself comparing my progress with others, longing for new cast-ons, and accumulating languishing works-in-progress. I refresh the chat daily to see others' finished sweaters, when I have hardly made progress on mine (despite many long hours of staring at the charts).

Furthermore, a participant of the Olympics has joined. We congratulated Imogen Grant on her gold medal in rowing she won for the British team. Emojis and gifs came flooding the chat, and we all told our families and local yarn communities we had met an official Olympic gold-medalist. However, as overjoyed as I was to see finished sweaters and meet a gold-medalist, I began to put off knitting on this sweater. I certainly was not jealous of the others, but this hobby must be kept in its place as a source of inner peace, and, as they say, comparison is the thief of joy.

How then, does one reach the root cause of procrastination, whether it be perfectionism, low self-esteem, or anxiety? Perhaps my hobby itself is a way of procrastinating things I need to do like other school work, or getting out of the house to meet people and run errands.

As I knit and write this outside among a grove of trees in my yard, I admire their beauty and simplicity. Rooted in the ground, yet reaching towards the sky, unhindered by other trees, big or small. Having segments of branches and hundreds of little leaves that come and go, yet the tree grows on. Maybe my hobby can evolve similarly, with the main goal of reaching inner peace, yet having smaller goals that come and go as changes occur in my life and my need for stress-relieving knitting fluctuates. Perhaps my knitting journey grew a new branch today (or "turned a leaf" as they say) upon this realization. I hope to remember these reflections going forward, and I hope there is time today for just a few more rows (:

(I did manage to make some progress this week despite the "theme" of procrastination. I completed the next row of "flowers" on the lower body portion as pictured below).

[jill-knits]

Elbow Procrastination Out of the way. Done! This should have gone out last week, but I was on vacation and decided not to do anything not absolutely necessary. I am a major procrastinator; embracing it is part of accepting how I work and what I need to work effectively. As a manager of myself, it is so hard to deal with! #procrastination #procrastinate #procrastiknit #procrastiknitter #procrastinating #knittersgonnaknit #knittersofinstagram #knittingproblems #knittingdesign #knittingdesignersofinstagram #knittingdesigners #indiedesigners #indiedyersofinstagram #indiedyers https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ4_PMEJqKw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Eight days and 100 grams of yarn later

[thewoollykraken]

And the award for worlds worst KAL-er goes to...😬🏆 3 years later and it’s finally time to finish this guy up. I can feel it! IT’S YOUR TIME TO SHINE, MR. SWEATER ✨

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

You mentioned you knitted a picture of an interchange, do you have a photo of your result? 👀 I’d love to see!

tragically i don't, alas - this was my pattern sketch on graph paper, so if you can fill in the blanks that it was a royal purple background with sea green and fuchsia road-lines, you'll more or less get it?

i think i'm going to revisit it one day, i think i can do more with it than what i did the first time 'round, and i'll _certainly_ be able to do a better job with the finished product quality, this was one of the first things i knit with intarsia and i've learned how to make it a lot more polished since then

[kismetknits]

On my desk this morning: mid week #procrastiknitting 🏙 . Tea: @celestialtea Vermont maple spice 🍁 Sweater pattern: I’m working on it (when I should be working on so many other things!!) #knittersofinstagram #knitting #knitstagram #kismetknits #yarn #yarnlove #yarnporn #knit #strikk #strikking #tricot #howiknit #igknitters #instaknit #knitter #hygge #iloveknitting #knittersofig #knitting_inspiration #knittingaddict #stitchbystitch #yarnlove #isolationknitting (at Fairhaven, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAIRMlVJGb5/?igshid=gni7gmq6k0n2

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

did this book make the playlist, or did the playlist make the book?? the world may never know

[n-0-e-m-i]

99% done! Tomorrow I'll buy wooden buttons and sew them on

[ladychraelix]

procrastiknitting sucks

if i get the wild idea to knit a bunch of hats in a week and a half for a christmas gift again, someone please hit me over the head with a cartoonishly huge rubber mallet to knock the sense back into me

[petedavidsonslefteye]

Just some stuff I knit for my perfect baby nephew ☺️ Loved seeing the wear on the well-loved giraffe 😭❤️

[knicromaniac]

When one wakes up at 0345 and can't go back to sleep, one must yarnbend and blare Lana. IT IS SO HARD not to belt it out right along with her, but not waking up my Men is a priority. 😜 Oh, and this border is the bane of my existence. No wonder I've been reading more than yarnbending. 😩 Whoops. #procrastiKNIT #widn #knittersofinstagram #crochetersofinstagram #hi #goodmorning #earlybird #babygift #babyblanket #yarn #WIP #knicromaniac