My plan is to keep the basket in plain view to nag me until I get around to it.
I wonder how many new pairs of socks I’ll knit in the meantime.
Monday, February 22, 2010
A Stitch in Time
A couple of weeks ago, a friend proudly remarked that she had done all of her mending over the weekend. Knowing that some of my socks have been in need of attention for more than a couple of years, I was duly impressed. Whenever asked about mending socks, I’ve answered that I’d rather knit a whole new pair than mend an old pair. But ever since hearing about my friend’s virtuosity, those holes and worn areas have haunted me. So today I gathered all the projects needing attention and put them in what I have now designated as my mending basket. Although it doesn’t count as mending, I also included the sweater I finished in January but haven’t sewn together yet. In all, there are nine pairs of socks and one sweater in the basket. (I also need to mend a knitted afghan, but that’s too big to include—either in the basket or in my intentions.)
My plan is to keep the basket in plain view to nag me until I get around to it.
I wonder how many new pairs of socks I’ll knit in the meantime.
My plan is to keep the basket in plain view to nag me until I get around to it.
I wonder how many new pairs of socks I’ll knit in the meantime.
I think that would completely backfire on me. I would let the stuff sit in there and then just treat the basket like a piece of furniture and soon it would have the mending, a magazine, some recipes, remote controls...
ReplyDeleteIt would backfire on me as well: it would just collect dust, cat fur, school papers, some additional half-knitted projects, and maybe a pencil from one of my kids, just for good measure. Who knows, it would probably prop up a book or pattern while I create something new to stuff in the basket. But I'm not disorganized. (I keep telling myself that in the hopes it'll come true...)
ReplyDeleteI would just keep adding things to the basket until the basket could hold no more, and then I would move the contents into one of those giant zipper bags that bedding comes in, then shove the bag into a closet and pretend it doesn't exist.
ReplyDeleteI have one of those baskets. Not that I have gotten to any of it yet, though. I am a hopeless optimist, and still continue to think that I will get to it one of these days.
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