Holy cow, that was fast.

[pk_knits]

I finished Komon last night, steam-pressed it this morning* and am wearing it to work. (-:

Nine days of knitting and two long-ish evenings spent seaming it up and weaving in a bazillion slippery rayon ends. And I wasn't even particularly trying to finish this one quickly.

I credit two things:

• Lots of time on my hands, including two five-hour

Comments

[aquaeri]

I'm shocked you've been knitting this long and don't yet have a substantial stash and list of intended projects :-).

[kightp]

*grin* I've been on a stash reduction campaign since early last summer; I realized that I was acquiring yarn much faster than I was knitting it, and often without any real sense of what I wanted to knit with it, which often meant that by the time I found the perfect pattern I also discovered that I had too little of the given yarn. And I find myself annoyed by the whole "flash your stash" thing on Ravelry and elsewhere, because it smacks of thoughtless acquisition. So I decided to walk the walk.

It's working. All that's left in my stash right now is a bag of miscellaneous worsted wool, good for small felting projects, the sock yarn I plan to knit up on my coming trip, a couple of skeins of Hand Maiden SeaSilk that are designated for a yet-to-be-completed shawl pattern, and some lace-weight yarn that's waiting for me to feel like tackling another large-scale shawl project.

[karenkay]

I really appreciate this about you. I have an obscene amount of sock yarn because I got overzealous, but I will knit it up.

[aquaeri]

I wonder if it's to do with different working methods? I mean, I agree that things can easily tip over into annoyingness with the whole "zie who dies with the most stash wins" stuff. On the other hand, sometimes I have to have a yarn for a while before I know the best thing to do with it, or encounter a different idea I want to incorporate. I don't tend to follow existing patterns closely, and I guess for me part of the game is "what can I make with the amount of yarn that I have?" and "which yarns I didn't think went together actually do?" and such. Very much like elisem and John M Ford thing about feeder logs in the creative ecosystem.

[karenkay]

Can't wait for the photos!