Obsession
I tend to buy yarn in spurts. I'll go for months without purchasing or swapping anything, and then one day, I get that random itch (you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about), and three days later the house is buried under a mound of fiber. I also tend to obsess over the same colors or combination of colors, so one block of purchases will all be red, the next different shades of purple, so on and so forth. The latest color combinations have been pink and green together; I've gotten three skeins of sock yarn in the past two weeks with the same colors.
Not that I needed them, of course. The drawer that I stash all of my sock yarn in is getting a bit crowded, meaning that I better stop stashing and start KNITTING.
This is the aforementioned Woodland Shawl in Fearless Fibers Superwash Sock, color Sublime; the skein looked brown at first glance, but the more I knit through it, the more I see the balance of gold and green, red and brown. I added two pattern repeats so that it was a bit wider than the original pattern. It has been the perfect travel project lately; I've memorized the pattern, the yarn is pretty sturdy and well behaved, and I can chunk the entire thing into my purse and not worry about how delicate it is. I'm hoping to finish it up soon and block it, but knowing me, it'll still be sitting around six months from now, probably only a few repeats short of being complete. I have knitting ADD lately, and I can't focus on one single thing at a time. Actually, that might be more of a symptom of my life, and not so much just limited to knitting.
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