Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ~Euripides
In January of 2008, I began making a crocheted block a month in a group on
Ravelry--an online knit and crochet community. The idea being that by December, 2008, I would have 12 blocks that I could make into an afghan. All went according to plan until October and then, for some reason I can no longer remember, I put the project in my craft closet and began another project, and another project, and another project. Some people call this affliction of starting one project before completing another "
startitis". There is a certain pleasure in beginning a new project--a thrill of anticipation in the planning stages before the project is actually begun. There have been no problems; no mistakes have been made; no rethinking has been necessary. There is just that rosy dream of what it will look like when it is finished. And when problems or boredom do set in, it is a simple matter of setting the project aside to be finished "someday" and starting another one. It's like a shot of adrenalin.
Towards the end of December, 2010, I joined another crochet block a month group on Ravelry to make an afghan by the end of 2011. (You'd think I would have learned better in the intervening 3 years!) As I impatiently awaited the delivery of the yarn I ordered to make this new afghan, I remembered the half-finished one from 2008 and decided to work on it until the new yarn arrived. I am making the 2011 afghan for my little grandson and really want to finish it in time to send it to him for his second Christmas. I have this superstitious feeling that if I don't finish the project begun in 2008, I will never finish the new one for my grandson. I am happy to report that I have now finished all 12 blocks and have started on the first of 6 more that I have decided need to be added to make a good-sized afghan for my guest bedroom. I have even begun joining the blocks that are already finished. See for yourself:
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| October, 2008 Block |
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| November, 2008 Block |
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| December, 2008 Block |
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| Afghan Under Construction |
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Euripides advice above is timely for me. I haven't achieved closure yet, but it is in sight now.
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