90 days of knitting
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 5:01PM I'm almost done with the baby blanket. I only have 3864 stitches to knit 8 more times, and then I can bind them all off.
Swear. Pics tomorrow.
And then I can cast on for this sweetie:
Y'all chose this colorway by less than 1%, so I'm going to obey.
I'm a finisher. I love to finish things. I can start more than one thing at a time, but there is no pleasure like being done. I do not seem to be in good company in this regard. When I teach workshops, the overwhelming majority of you tell me you really prefer to start things, that starting is the most fun.
And I do get that. But I am task oriented. It's fun to be able to admire my handiwork, to be able to sit back and admire what I made, or did, or baked, or painted, for a minute.
Speaking of which, these eleventy trillion stitches aren't going to knit themselves. They apparently multiplied while I was in the middle of typing this. So I should go before things get unmanageable.
How about you: starter or a finisher?
Reader Comments (13)
I'm a starter but would like to convert into a finisher. Any tips on how to be in the happy medium? Great post; it made me want to finish my shawl pronto.
I go back and forth. Either I'm starting things like wildfire, or staying true to one thing for the long haul. There really is no better feeling than the satisfactory action of weaving in ends, sewing buttons and then snapping pics for Ravelry. :)
I am a 100% Finisher. I like starting, but worry way more about having unfinished things laying about. I am also pretty much a monogamous knitter -- this month is an exception for KALs. But I guarantee I won't ever have more than 3 things on the needles. I like to start & finish, look at and adore, and then move on!
Can't wait to see the baby blanket! That's a lot of stitches lol
I LOVE the sense of accomplishment finishing brings...but rarely make it there, for one reason or another. Can't wait to see your finished blanket :)
Of course, even being a finishing type of girl doesn't mean I get around to that part swiftly. I've just finished a cardi started in February 2010, ugh. Well...finished this morning but am going to redo the button placement, wore it today and was less than thrilled with the result.
I voted finisher, because I do totally love the feeling when something is DONE. However, I think I'm really about equally both, if I'm honest. And it varies from day to day which is in ascendancy... ;-)
I can't pick one....I get a bad case of startitis every so often and start stuff left and right. But then I hate having a ton of ufo's laying around and do the finishing like mad thing and am so happy when I have a pile of FO's beside me :)
I need to finish things, to feel that sense of getting something done. Otherwise I get discouraged.
The most projects I have ever had on the needles at the same time I believe was 10...it sort of scared me that I had so many and how could I possibly finish them. Lesson learned & now I have at most 3 or 4...a mindless knit that I don't mind ignoring, at least one sock and either lace or a sweater.
I love the process of finishing...especially seaming. Yes, I'm weird.
Gosh, I actually feel like my favorite parts are the starting and planning, but also the blocking (the finishing finishing). It's so satisfying to see a project bloom and begin to look exactly like you want it to. I've started to think that things aren't really finished until you can't see the ends anymore.
I also like doing proposals. It gives me a really good feeling to do the dreaming and swatching stage. Swatching is really great because you get to start and finish almost all in one sitting, weave in ends and block., In the course of two hours you've finished a project.
I am a total finisher! Always have been with any project. Well, almost :)
Friends and I were talking at a Guild meeting recently -- I was receiving compliments on a sweater that had been all-but-done for ~six weeks before I got the wherewithal to finish it off.
I mentioned how, as knitters, we've all heard of "start-itis". But for some of us, we need something like "being in the pit of FOF-dom" where FOF is "fear of finishing."
My personal FOF dread includes: What if I don't like it? What if it doesn't fit? What if doesn't have that "je ne sais quoi" loveliness that the model in the pattern photo shoot pulls off & I can't?
Am I the only one?
I love starting and finishing, but I'm a way better starter than finisher.
I love the process of finishing...especially seaming.