It’s a Saturday morning and I have the luxury of a whole free day to fill. Yet I’m kind of stuck. There are so many things I’d like to be doing I can’t decide which to start.
I do need to finish warping up the loom, because I want to take it to the spinning meet tomorrow.
I’d like to make another wrap skirt.
Or I could make cards, like I try to do ever year, but it looked like I wouldn’t have time this year, but suddenly I have a day free.
Or make the macrame top I want to make for the 70s theme New Year’s Eve party.
I really ought to sand and varnish the staircase treads, but though it’ll only take an hour or so that’ll mean we can’t go upstairs for 12 hours.
Of course, what do you do when you can’t decide what to do? You do something pointless, like wasting time on the internet. I just had a look at the feedback page for the ebay seller of the needles I supposedly won. There’s now positive feedback there from other buyers. So the seller isn’t dead, or been whisked away on a romantic holiday with some rich and dashing man, like I imagined. They’re just ignoring me.
So I left some ‘neutral’ feedback which, if nothing else, gives me a sense of closure. Interesting how ebay won’t let you read any feedback further back than the current page. And how a seller can have a handful of negative or neutral entries but still come up 100% positive.
And then there’s Ravelry. I can lose hours there. I’m amazed that some people have hundreds of wips entered now. I’ve stopped at 30 because I’m too impatient to wait for my notebook page to load. I’m even thinking of choosing my favourite 30 wips to go up there instead of the 30 most recent.
I’ve had a couple of requests to use my pics as examples of patterns. It amuses me how much of an ego boost this is. I go downstairs and tell the beau, and he obligingly nods and smiles as if he knows what I’m talking about.
Most of my time goes to the groups now. Recently I’ve ‘signed up’ for the next swap – the Australian Knitters Bag Lady Swap. And posted a wish list of sock yarn colours for the new Patonyle range. And discovered new Aussie yarns. And suggested a colourway for PMS.
But I really must sign out, warp up the loom and start on one of those other projects.
Ah, yes – I know this story all too well, as I must be one of the biggest procrastinators going! I seem to have achieved next to nothing in the past few weeks as I’ve spent most of my time just pondering which project I should work on – yet haven’t actually got as far as picking any of them up!
By the way, don’t write off the local needle suppliers. There are indeed a lot of influencing factors and I suspect we’ll soon have to sell off our Addis and discontinue them as our Knit Picks are in much greater demand. In some cases, public opinion has an udeniable impact, but in other cases I strongly resist the swell of opinion in order to maintain a service for a minority.
We sell Liteflex casein needles from NZ (the same needles as Bryspun/Bryson)- and that’s a brand we’ve no intention of discontinuing. They’re a needle I ‘believe’ in, with the added bonus of a lifetime warranty – we order in any available sizes and types at customer’s request.
Sorry – this has ended up sounding like an ad rather than a comment – let me get back to my procrastination…..