The difficulty of choosing a new project
The one thing I really love about being a LYS (local yarn shop) owner, is that I have a front row seat when it comes to people and their decisions. How they decide on what yarn to buy and how they also keep themselves from buying.
Some declare that they have banned themselves from buying more yarn until their six hundred and two projects are done. Some come in here and fall in love with a particular skein and plan then and there how to incorporate it. Some look at the yarn and dream for a few weeks about the favourite skein before they indulge themselves.
Some look at a sample and decide they want to make a project exactly like the one they see, while others buy a pattern and modify it beyond recognition.
Some will never betray their trusted colour while others are mixing it up as they like the thrill of a new colour combination.
I value personal freedom, and I express it in many different ways. I resist being put in a box and my choice of colours, yarn, and projects often reflect it. It will be a very unusual choice to follow the crowd, and then I am often very disappointed when I do. I love recipes more than patterns. I balk at the idea that some people believe there are rules when it comes to colours that can work together, or that only certain yarns work in specific projects. You can just imagine what kind of learner I was at school…
It should be easy to choose what project to do next, one would think.
Ha!
There is also a thing as too much choice! Having access to yarn, and technically all the different ways to use it, makes it harder.
I currently use yarn that I want to showcase in The Yarn Room. I try a different approach to what I hear the customers say they would do with the yarn. Also, if I can dream up a crocheted piece, I am more likely to do it too.
What I love the most however, is to see all the different ways the yarn turns into projects. Please share your work and spread the joy! I will remember to share my projects too, and I hope you receive them with joy!