The Crafting Journey (Part Q)

 This week I made lots of progress on my knitting! I looked for patterns for future projects and I started a baby blanket and another shawl. I also finished the hanging dishtowels I was making. I knit 70 rows of a shawl in one night (there were not many stitches- but still)!

I am hoping that I have a few items to donate for Craft for YEG in September. I do not donate for every round up because I simply don't knit fast enough to have stuff for every time. 

With so many free patterns, I don't often purchase patterns. I love to look on Ravelry just to see what I can see. However, the shawl I am making is a paid pattern but so far seems well worth it- plus I intend to make that pattern more than once. 

I am really enjoying working. I have not worked a real job in almost 20 years (I don't count my transcription job as real because I worked from home and made pittance for pay). I love the idea that I can be out in the public interacting with people and finding out what stuff others have been inspired to make. 

Tomorrow, I intend to look at, and perhaps purchase some yarn to make snow flake ornaments as gifts. I do not know how fast I can produce the snowflakes, so I am starting early because I intend to make many of them. I am going to tuck them into my Christmas cards- yes I still write those, and I find joy in sending cards (but they have to be Hallmark of course!)

While I have lots of projects on my needles, I have even more ideas about stuff I want to make. I have all kinds of yarn in my stash, and some I am saving for certain projects. I look at my yarn and think, "so much yarn, so little time!" Truthfully, there is no time line. I don't have to be done a project by a certain time and creating is not a race nor a competition. I can craft like a mad woman or choose not to knit for extended periods of time. It doesn't matter, as long as I don't stifle the creativity. I hope you realize this in your own crafting journey too, that crafting and creating are not a race. 

Keep on crafting!

Melanie


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