KNITSTER

I finally completed yet another pair of wristwarmers. Although I could use a pair myself, I think I’m done with doing them for a while. Since November, I’ve made 5 pairs. FIVE. Can you believe that? And that’s in between everything else! And that doesn’t include the actual mittens I made. I’m glad that project is done. I’m being paid for them, so now I can send them out, and since I was prepaid, now I feel okay if I choose to spend the money I earned for them. It didn’t feel right to do it before.

So now I’m left with two projects that I’m actively working on, namely the Flying Geese shrug of my own design (which we’ll see how that turns out), and the red sweater that was the revamp of the Flaming Sweater of earlier that I frogged. Now that I’m not working on the wristwarmers, I think I’ll be able to make more progress on these two projects. I’m going to do my best to stand firm on not starting anymore projects for a little while if I can help it. I really want to finish these two projects soon! The shrug was started about a year ago, and put aside for a very long time. I want to wear it before summer this year! And the sweater, well, I want Drew to be able to wear it for the spring, and still fit into it!

In the meantime, I went to a local craft fair this past weekend. It was an interesting experience, as in the past, I was just looking around casually, and usually I was another vendor there with my Body Shop at Home stuff. Now that I don’t sell that stuff anymore, and I don’t work the shows like that, I was on a mission to see what was there, of course, but especially to see if there were any knitted goods, what they were, and how much they charged. It was very interesting to see the differences betwen the three vendors who did do knitted pieces. One of them did everything in Lion Brand Fun Fur, and I could tell because I have some and recognized the colors they had! All of them had very simple designs really, but because all of them used novelty yarns of various types (some higher end yarns, some not so high end), they made them look interesting to the amateur eye. I mean, one used higher end ribbon and other novelty yarns, that I could tell, but all it was was a short neck scarf of 10 stitches across, all done on large needles for about 20 inches, with fringe of said yarns. And that was it! Well, I could probably mass produce those too! But that’s not what I would want to do. I’ve toyed with the idea of having my own craft business of some sort, but of what? Sometimes I’ve thought of having an online yarn shop, but they are a dime a dozen. And there’s Etsy, so it’s not like I wouldn’t have competition that way either. I don’t know…it’s still in the thinking stages, since I’m not sure exactly what I would want to do just yet. Knit little things? Make home dyed yarn colorways? Have an online LYS? Open a yarn store? I don’t know. But I’m starting to feel that one of my possible callings might be in that direction. I need some creative outlet and be able to reap some sort of reward for the effort, you know? Hmmm….more thinking needed…..

Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Dani
Filed under: Finished Objects, Projects, Shopping