The last several weeks have been a flurry of 'work': yarn dyeing and article writing. (Well, not such a flurry on the articles. I've got a lot more to do.) The problem with working at home is, you're always at work. So, this weekend I've done nothing. I knit some, watched some movies, read a book, and slept late.
Back to dyeing and writing tomorrow.
In the irony department, it looks like I'm keeping the winter issue of VK. I think I might knit that ruffled garter-stitch wrap for someone (pattern #13). In boucle no less. I'm going to put it off and hopefully come to my senses. Soon.
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Good for you! You gotta know when to set everything down and just take a nap. Learned that one the hard way last year and won't make the same mistake again. You've earned a weekend of leisure!
I too find it hard to get down time because I make my own schedule. You get rid of your magazines that fast?
not to mention what happens when your hobby becomes your work as well. I imagine you'd have to work hard to make sure you still have some fun in there with no deadlines, no pressure.
That is definitely the second worst thing about working from home. The first being that no one seems to appreciate how hard it is/how much work you're doing.
You could knit it and give it to someone you hate. Then again, why give away your precious handknits?
And wait, I thought this was the year of knitting for you! What happened to that??
I'm still knitting Christmas gifts next year - except this time it's stuff I feel like knitting, not what I know they want. If that makes sense.
That's probably why the very IDEA of the wrap will get pushed back for another year, in the hopes I will come to my senses.
Unrelated-to-post question --
Have you seen Knitty Gritty on DIY Network? Am I the only one who thinks it's total schlock? I feel so anti-community slamming anything knitting, but it's got to be some of the worst drivel on TV. YH was on at one point last year and I missed it, but I can't imagine they did her justice. I guess if it hooks a 12 year-old on knitting, it's done some good, but sheesh!
Does this make me a horrible knitter? Will I be shunned from the knitting circles??
Unrelated-to-post question --
Have you seen Knitty Gritty on DIY Network? Am I the only one who thinks it's total schlock? I feel so anti-community slamming anything knitting, but it's got to be some of the worst drivel on TV. YH was on at one point last year and I missed it, but I can't imagine they did her justice. I guess if it hooks a 12 year-old on knitting, it's done some good, but sheesh!
Does this make me a horrible knitter? Will I be shunned from the knitting circles??
If you're shunned, I will be too. So come on over and we'll have tea and knit together.
The thing I hate most about Knitty Gritty.... well, okay, two things. It's a tie.
The one episode I watched, the approach was 'there is only one way - OUR WAY - to do things' which I absolutely hate because knitting has a million ways to do things and that's what makes it so adaptive.
And the painfully hip and stupidly simple patterns drive me batshit. In fact, I've been talking to someone about this whole 'knitting is so hip' movement... I feel another blog post coming on.
And speaking of working from home, I totally wish I had the guts to try it. I miss being home with my kids. As poor as we were, I enjoyed not working or being VERY part time as I was when my older kids were this little. If I could figure out how to make money freelancing, I'd be so totally there. (It seems to take more organization than I possibly have...it scares me.) Enjoy your veg time--enjoy your knitting for you time. I"m glad you're making money w/the dying--every time someone has offered to pay me to knit something for them I shudder--it feels like a job then and it's no fun anymore. I make it a b-day gift instead, usually.
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