Knitting Therapy

I found a cute poncho pattern I like and started that with some cheap LB Homespun I had laying around... I'm not FEELING any one particular project and it's frustrating me.

I did several searches online for patterns - hoping to have inspiration hit me like a bolt of lightening... but nothing came.  Oh - I found some cute things and a couple of times I'd say to myself Oh - I could make that for S0-and-So but then it wouldn't GEL beyond that.

I think one main trouble is my stash ... it has gotten a bit out of hand! I have so much JUNK -- and every time I clean a closet or bin or underbed box I find more yarn. Sadly, most of it is remnants or crappy acrylic or not enough of one "thing" to be anything at all. I have considered sitting down and figuring out a 'patchwork' sort of afghan maybe just to use up the bits of wool, cotton, acrylic -- ugly colors -- etc.... but I'm just not FEELING IT right now.

Maybe when winter sets in?

I just can't justify buying more yarn now ... I keep thinking that if I had the 'right' yarn for a project - I would get excited about starting something new. But I have SO MUCH that the dresser drawer won't close anymore and I've had to move a whole wicker basket full of yarns out of the dresser!  I love having all this yarn around -- I just wish it was pretty yarn ... pretty colors ... pretty textures ... but it's mainly crappy sportweight and acrylic junk.  I can't justify tossing it out - I can't justify buying the pretty stuff I do want to work with - I can't get excited about using it up....

The sock yarn I got from KnitPicks is just too small ... the sock needles are too small ... I can't work with them! UGH - frustrated! It means I have to get my eyes checked again and I KNOW they are going to force me (kicking and screaming) into a pair of tri-focals again!  Even the reading glasses I got last year aren't enough for me to see -- my eyes have really gone downhill lately ... But socks? I'm just not even jonesing for socks right now ... it's very sad.

I still salivate over yarns and needles and patterns .. I just can't seem to focus my mind on any one project I'm in love with. I either don't have the right yarn, or don't have enough of it, or have the wrong set of needles. I can't figure out the "gauge" thing so unless I get specific substitutions I'm at a loss as to what yarn to buy.

One thing I do like about the Homespun is that it is soft.  I don't mind working with it.  It's almost mindless - in fact.

Mindless knitting ... yes, I like that! The best kind of Knitting Therapy, I suppose.