Signs You are So Over Your Current Knitting Project

This list from Craftsy of 10 ways to know you’re over your current WIP made me laugh, but it’s actually important to think about.

Have you had a project in time out for years?

Are you totally bored with what you’re knitting?

Were you stitching something trendy last winter that you don’t care about or that isn’t in style any more?

Do you hate the yarn or the color?

These and more are all totally legitimate reasons to dump a knitting project.

That’s not to say that every project you’ve neglected for years should be dumped. I recently picked up a sweater I started more than eight years ago and now it’s almost finished. I still have a Hitchhiker somewhere that I definitely want done. But some projects are not worth our time and effort and we need to be OK with abandoning them. And it does give me a certain joy to rip out projects I’m not loving, secure in the knowledge I never have to see them again.

What about you? How do you know you need to break up with a project? Have you ever gone back and finished a years-old WIP? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Craftsy.]

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Not too long ago I was seeing a crochet pattern for a glasses holder shaped like a bear all over the Internet. It was super cute, and also useful as a place to put your glasses on your bedside table instead of just throwing them somewhere random.

This project stewed in my brain for a little while and I decided I needed to make a knit version, but I didn’t want to make a bear. If you know anything about me you might know that I’m a cat person, so of course my version had to be a cat.

The base is just a basic little basic worked from the center out to the desired size, then up the sides as long as you want them. Knit some ears and add embellishments to make it whatever kind of animal you want.

The way I figured out to work the base from the center out was to use a crochet cast on, which gives you an easier way to pick up stitches from the back of the cast on than if you worked a more traditional cast on for a knitting project. It’s kind of fun to do things in a different way from time to time.

This little project is adorable if I do say so myself, and even as a plain little basket not made into an animal it’s a cute way to keep your glasses or other little things in one place. I’m tempted to make one for my desk to hold pens or even little little scissors and sewing needles that are always on my desk but somehow always seem to get lost on my desk.

If you need a little holder for your glasses on your table, check out the pattern at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Our Daily Craft]

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