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WIPs, Timeouts, Graveyards
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How do you know when a work in progress (WIP) officially moves to timeout or even winds up in your project graveyard? Hosts Andrew (Caliri Creations) and Kelly (Cocky Crocheter) explore this topic as they talk about their own WIPs, how they manage them, and more.
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Introduction to the Episode
00:00:00
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Thank you.
00:00:13
Speaker
Hey, besties. Welcome back to another episode of Two CCs of Fiber Arts. I'm Andrew from Cleary Creations or on Instagram and YouTube as Plant Knit Fitness. And this is Kelly, the cocky crocheter.
00:00:27
Speaker
And we have another lovely episode for you today. Um, our topic, we are going to be talking all about WIPs, work in progress. Um, and what happens when you have too many WIPs or WIPs that you don't feel like working on. so we're going to talk all about WIP timeouts and graveyards and all of that stuff.
00:00:49
Speaker
Yay! So excited! yeah So in the spirit of WIPs, your work in progress, in progress um Kelly, how do you manage your whips? Like, do you have one whip going at all times or do you have multiple whips that you switch back and forth between? How do you kind of manage having ah multiple projects or even just like a single one?
00:01:16
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Manage is a very generous term. um Because to say that I manage my whips is like, they they're more like free range whips is what I would say. I would call them. Yeah, i kind of let them live independently, but um I am still the shepherd. And so on occasion, I will wrangle up the one that I need. um but yes, but but to answer your question succinctly, i have multiples going on at one time.
00:01:46
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um Because I can never just have one. Like I'm not a monogamous at all. Yeah. I am definitely. Yeah. I'm definitely Polly when it comes to my projects. ah Oh yeah. yeah yeah paully paul Miss Polly pocket here.
Choosing Projects to Work On
00:02:02
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Okay. Yeah. I usually will have. Okay. So how I kind of manage them is I'll usually have kind of one or two big projects that I'm actively working on in some form.
00:02:15
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mentally or even physically or like i'm I've started like designing them or something like that. And then I'll have um a couple of small ones going. um And the small ones are usually going to be something like a hat or right now I've got some gloves that I'm still working through. ah ah And um or I'm doing swatching.
00:02:38
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for a potential design for like another project later. um But usually like active projects, I'm usually managing about maybe three or four at a time. Okay. And then anything else, I've kind of just like let i let them linger.
00:02:54
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They're still doing their own thing. yeah So yeah, that's... That's kind of my management strategy. And I try to keep them all like, okay, so I also have my project bag is just a backpack. um And I'll usually put anything that I'm actively working on in there so that regardless of my mood or where I might be, um i can work on one of those projects. But if I know that there's one in particular that I'm way more active with, then I will actually remove every project out of the bag except that one.
00:03:25
Speaker
Okay, ah nice. And if it's a small project, I actually have a small project. Okay, like go through this whole process. I have a yeah project bag that I just stick that project in along with my AirPods, the hook that I'm using, so I don't bring all of my hooks with me, and whatever notions I may need. And that's it. Like I try to keep it really condensed so that it's a little bit more portable.
00:03:49
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Yeah.
Why Projects Get Abandoned
00:03:50
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but because some And i I go back and forth between like carrying this, lugging around this huge backpack full of all these projects and all of my notions and all my hooks, because I don't know which one I'm going to use, to then condensing down to one small pack. And I just keep ballooning and contracting each time. Oh, yeah. I do the same thing.
00:04:08
Speaker
Yeah. Well, so, okay. ah Like, when you have these, like you said, you have like three to four whips going at any given time. Well, how do you decide which one to work on? Like, is it like you just feel more drawn to one or you're more excited about one? Like,
00:04:26
Speaker
How do you decide? um Okay, so a lot of it is going to be the convenience of working on it where I'm at. So if it's a very mobile project, I can work on it pretty much anywhere. I'll take it with me to work. I'll take it with me to the doctor's office, to a cafe, things like that. um But even some of my bigger projects, I'll still bring those with me. They're just a little bit more cumbersome. um But when they start getting to the point where they're unwieldy, like...
00:04:54
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the Like a cardigan I'm working on right now. Oh yeah. blankn I haven't worked on a blanket in years. No, um but you you get the idea. um But like on a cardigan right now, I'm like, I'm to the point where I'm on the sleeve, like one of the sleeves I've done the other sleeve. I've done the panels. I've sewn it all together. I still have to ribbing. It's like, but it is just, it's massive and just so much to try to work with.
00:05:16
Speaker
But if I was just working on like the individual panels, I brought those everywhere with me. That was just fine. Oh yeah. True. Yeah. um But then the other thing is like, yeah, what am I excited about? And also where in the project am I at?
00:05:32
Speaker
So like for instance, on that cardigan, I'm right now on starting the other sleeve, which means I have to I guess in knitting terms, pick up stitches. But what i have to do is I have to like add yarn and then work around the edge of rows, which is just a little bit more there. It's less accurate. You have to be a little bit more concentrating with it. And I'm like, I don't, i don't want to do that. I want to play. I want to do something a little bit more mindless or something a little bit more relaxed. yeah So I don't want to work on that project. I want to work on the one where I'm just working single crochets in the round. Yeah. that's so much easier for me to do.
00:06:08
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But I know that eventually I have to pick that other project back up. So yeah, that's kind of how decide. Okay. Okay, nice. So basically like how you feel and, you know, what the project is asking of you.
00:06:24
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much. And there are times when I'll be like, if I'm at home and I'm like, I'm ready to tackle this more complicated part, then I'm ready to tackle it. Like, I'm okay with that. But I just need to be in the right headspace to do it because I also don't want to deal with mistakes or I want to minimize mistakes because I know I'll make them if I'm not in the mood to work on it.
00:06:48
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Oh, yeah, true. So when for you, when does not being in the mood to work on it transition into, oops, I haven't worked on that project in months. It's just been sitting there. It's ah basically in like a graveyard
The Influence of Seasons and Deadlines
00:07:05
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situation where it's untouched and unthought about for a long time.
00:07:11
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ah Oh, God. Okay. um That is usually going to only happen to projects where it is only about me. So like if it's for me, it is my design. It's not on a deadline. It's not for a magazine or a yarn company or like a dyer or anything like that.
00:07:31
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then I feel no obligation have to finish it. So I'm like, well, there's a reason I don't want to work on it right now because I've had to prioritize other. Okay. To be honest, part of it is that like I get excited about the new project, the new, the brand new yarn get or the new project I think of or the new design I want to try. like, for example, when over the summer we were talking about like me doing those mesh tank top designs, all my mind could think about was I want to, I want to work on these right now. I had a couple of different pullovers that I was actually very excited to work on.
00:08:07
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But then the moment that that tank top idea came into my head, I was like, this is all my personality is about right now. So they have been sitting right in my closet, beautiful, beautiful sweaters that I am. so I still really, really want to make, but they've been there since 2024. And it's 2026 now.
00:08:27
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girl and it's twenty twenty six now So, yeah. Yeah, when you say it like that, like they're they're not coming back. Not, they, okay.
00:08:40
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One, okay. Some of them will. There are a couple that will. like Even the cardigan I was just talking about, that was sitting in Time Out all summer long. like it was This is not a summer project. It was actually even supposed to be done by September of last year.
00:08:57
Speaker
But thankfully the yarn dyer that I'm making it for. Yeah. She was just like, I'm not to have the collection for that yarn ready anyway. So i was like, thank God because it's not going to be ready on time. So we pushed it to this upcoming September. So I still have more time to be able to work on that one. So i was like, okay, there's at least that, but now I know I'm like, I've got to get it done so that I can get a testing group going with it. Cause it's going to take some time to do um But there was that. So that one I knew I needed to eventually pick back up.
00:09:26
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um yeah But then the other thing is like partially the season, I guess, because yeah I also started working on those shorts and I made a pair. It's published. And there are two other sets of shorts that I'm going to make. I've even made one of the pairs, but I haven't written the pattern for it. But then the weather started going down and I was like, this is not the time for me to be trying to push shorts out. So yeah that is currently in timeout.
00:09:52
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um so so So those are like the the timeout ones, I guess, are the ones that you know you're going to go back to. yeah That's what I'm kind of getting, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But then there are those there are definitely some that have been in time out for a perpetual amount of time. So one day they may be resurrected. There are a couple that I know I'm going to resurrect, but there's at least one or two I can already think of that I'm like, I feel like this is dead and I just can't let go. Like, yeah I want to one day make them, but I know myself and know that I probably will never make these. Yeah.
00:10:26
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Yeah. What about you? me i Yeah, I'm the same. like i So I normally have only one whip going at a time because I am just like, if I'm going to be putting in work to this, like I just need to commit to this one and get it finished. And then I can reward myself by moving on to a new project. Yeah.
00:10:48
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So i'm I usually only, like when you were
Different Approaches to Project Management
00:10:52
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describing the bags that you bring, i usually only bring like the small bag with like one with like one project and only like the stuff I need for the one project.
00:11:04
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um okay And then it basically just forces me to be like, all right, well, if you feel like knitting, here's the project you're going to be working on. yeah You said you were going to make this project, so you here you go.
00:11:18
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But there are exceptions to that. Like every now and then i do abandon projects that may or may not get revisited. ah Like I was working on this pair of shorts last year that I was pretty excited about.
00:11:32
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But um I got to the portion where you need to split the like the part that covers your butt and the front. You split for the legs.
00:11:45
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And before you do that, you're supposed to put them on to make sure that they fit and that they're the length you want. And like, you know, your crotch region is like fine and the butt fits fine. Like that's your chance to make any changes.
00:12:01
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But i was like, okay, well, I'll try them on later. Guess what? I haven't tried them on yet. And it's been like eight months. They are still in the bag. Girl, they okay, that's okay. yeahp What's funny to me about that is that it sounds ridiculous. You're like, you just just try them on. Like, that's not a big deal. But I actually fully 100% get that. I have a pair of socks basically done.
00:12:28
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One of them, the heel needs to be sewn and then we like weave in those yarn ends. and But I haven't done it. For some reason, I was like, don't want to. That's sewing and seaming the ends?
00:12:39
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Yes, basically. Well, actually, no, more i sorry no no no no no no i take no, no, sorry. you Take that back. I still have to make the heel in one of them. I see. The other one, the the first one still needs me to seam up the heel. The second one, I need to make the heel and then seam it up. But it's, it's just that, like, it's just those little things.
00:12:58
Speaker
But yeah, so I get it. It's like, it's not much. It's just try it on. So, you know, to split. It's just make a heel, seam it up. That's it, girl. That's all you got to do. I know. but For some reason, like,
00:13:09
Speaker
That's too demanding. That's not what I want. Okay. i don't want to work on it. Yes, it is too demanding. Okay, but there's a reason why it's too demanding, okay? So the shorts are knit in the round, and the circular needles that I have them on are not big enough for me to actually put the shorts on.
00:13:26
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ah So I need to get a longer ah cord or like put the stitches on like waste yarn or something. So like I can do that, but that right there is the limiting factor as to why I have not done it yet. Because I don't feel like putting all the stitches on extra yarn or like a cord.
00:13:47
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um Because, i don't know, like, I just need to do it. But I lost interest in that project because um the waistband is white or like a cream color.
00:14:03
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But I accidentally stained the waistband already. this The project is not even off the needles and there's a stain on it.
00:14:14
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So I'm like, well, now I don't even feel like finishing the project because what if this stain doesn't come out? And then what? I have handmade beautiful shorts with a big ass stain. And let me tell you, it is literally right on the front at the waist part, like where the drawstring, the drawstring
Challenges in Knitting and Project Abandonment
00:14:35
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will be. There's a stain there and it is noticeable.
00:14:39
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Um, it's less noticeable now because I did kind of like spot treat it. So it's like barely there, but I know that you can still see it. Like i know it's still there. So it's like the stain for one, having to split the, for the legs and try them on. That's another one. And number two, I needed the needles from that project for the mystery knit along.
00:15:05
Speaker
Which was last year. so like, I was like, you know Stephen West has to take priority there. Well, the shorts are actually Stephen West. Yeah, I was going to say that. it was like, isn't it a Stephen West pattern that supplanted another Stephen West pattern? Yes, it Oh my God. It Oh yeah. Well, okay. No.
00:15:27
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The whole litany of reasons is why I abandoned that project. But now, like, I mean, obviously i can use the needles. I'm done with the MCAL. Like, that reason is gone. But the other two reasons, like putting it on another cord and the stain, are preventing me from wanting to go back.
00:15:46
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But i'm I feel like that stain will come out. So I need to get over it. And like, once I finish my your next couple of projects, I should really revisit it because all I have to do is finish the legs and then I can have the pair of shorts.
00:16:03
Speaker
Yeah, that that makes sense with like what you just said. Great. I love that word, by the way, the litany of all the things. But I think that that's what it is. is It's more than when you're not working on a project. When something transfers basically from whip timeout to graveyard, it really is like, what's what are all the mental barriers that you have to overcome to get to that next part of the project?
00:16:26
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And I think that that's it. like For me, the reason for those socks is because one, there's no obligation on them. There's no oh yeah timeline I have to fit. There's no deadline to meet. I i don't have that.
00:16:40
Speaker
They're just for me. They don't even really quite fit right. Like they were my first attempted socks and I tried to get them to fit right, but they just, they didn't really quite fit right. But also they're not my own design. And I think that's oftentimes a huge barrier for me is I might get excited about making a project that somebody else has designed.
00:16:58
Speaker
But in the back of my mind, I'm always thinking you could be spending time working on one of your own designs right now. You have so many different ideas that you want to design that you're that you don't have time to do. So why are you working on someone else's design right now? And that's true about one of the sweaters that's currently in a graveyard. for Okay, so you mentioned a stain, right?
00:17:18
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So yeah i have i have this sweater, beautiful sweater design. One of my favorite designers. It is actually what got me into designing sweaters in the first place is Brianna Key Designs. It's her traveler sweater.
00:17:31
Speaker
And i've I've done the yoke. I have split for the sleeves. I have made the body. like I've started working on the body. But when like you make the yoke, you're supposed to block the yoke before you begin working on the body and everything. And so when I blocked it, there was a hand dyed yarn. It bled and it was this red and blue and purple, like color scheme in the top with like this oatmeal creamy white yarn and the red and the purple all up into that white.
00:18:04
Speaker
And I was just like, I don't like that. I don't want to work on this anymore. I don't even want to go back. don't want to try it. So it is just sitting there unfinished, untouched. And I'm like, I don't really have a desire to go back and go to work on it.
00:18:18
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Yeah. Because there's the stain. And then there's the fact that I'm like, it's somebody else's design, even though I love it and I love the designer and I want to make it. I'm like, and I have a couple of other designs that I bought from her that I wanted to make. And I'm like, but I have all my own own stuff. I've got to work on. I'm like,
00:18:36
Speaker
yeah It makes me feel bad like that it's even sitting in there. just makes me feel guilty for some reason. Well, I don't think you need to feel guilty. you know We all have our reasons for abandoning projects.
The Psychology Behind Losing Interest
00:18:50
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and you know um like You might start out thinking, like I love this project so much.
00:18:57
Speaker
But then like as you're working on it, you might discover like, oh, I really don't like it. like ah you know yeah Not that I don't like this pattern. I do like the pattern. but i So i'm I'm making the sailor slippers, which is like with that big chunky yarn.
00:19:14
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it's not an issue with the pattern, it's an issue with the yarn itself. Like it is just really hard to work with because the yarn is really thick and I had to go down like three needle sizes or something to match the pattern gauge. And so I'm not really used to- It's like loose gauge. bringing that back up but so i'm not used to working in this like tight pattern and so it's the tightness of the stitches and the thickness of the yarn it's like creating a lot of like strain on my back and my forearms while i'm knitting it and so i'm like
00:19:59
Speaker
Thank goodness this is a small project because if this was any larger than two slippers, I would probably stop working on it just because I don't like using the yarn and I want to get back to like looser knit fabrics and everything you'd like that. So, you know, that's...
00:20:20
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That's like one of the reasons I try to only have one whip going because I know if I have multiple ones, I'm going to like, I'm just going to throw away all the difficult ones and I'm never going to finish them. And then I'm just going to have a buildup of a graveyard, which oh I know some people have graveyards, like Tupperware bins full of abandoned projects.
00:20:43
Speaker
So, you know that that can happen. Yeah, and i that could easily be me. um i i'm okay I don't have issues with tossing things. I mean, we've talked about like with me and gauge swatches, I just throw them away. um Yeah. I know. um so But for like projects and things like that, like i I've held on to a couple of ones for years, and I'm just like... my Did just either salvage the yarn for a different project or throw it away.
00:21:16
Speaker
Cause I'm never going to make it. And it's just taking up space in my closet. Um, but it's really hard for me to bring myself to do that. But I'm also like, because they're organized in things like bags and tubs. When you said that, I was like,
00:21:29
Speaker
That's me. I mean, I will say I'm not one of those people I've seen and no judgment on people who do do this. Cause I mean like everybody live their own life. um But they, they do, they really have like a whole closet full of unfinished projects. And I'm just like, that's going to outlive you.
00:21:50
Speaker
Like that is, you're not going to have time to finish these. How, to them like I don't know. I just, well, and that's the thing is that I think like, what is it that causes you to lose excitement for a project that you originally were so excited to start? I know.
00:22:07
Speaker
And I'm like, well sometimes sit there and try to figure that out. I'm like, I used to really be excited about working on this. What's changed? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that's what's crazy that we even end up with abandoned projects or graveyards of whips that we know we're never going to get back to. Like some of them I know already like...
00:22:29
Speaker
I am not picking that back up. Forget it. Like, I only still have it so that I can pull yarn from it later. I already know I'm not finishing it. But it is crazy because, yeah, we have free will to choose whatever project we want to make. No one's telling us you have to make this.
00:22:48
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And yet, even with choosing our own projects, we still end up tossing them to the side. It's like, why are we doing this?
00:22:59
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I know it's like, I'm sure there's probably some kind of like psychological reason behind it. Oh yeah, maybe. I read something one time where somebody said, i think part of it is that the excitement of not knowing how it's going to look until you've like worked your way through it.
Balancing New and Existing Projects
00:23:20
Speaker
But then the moment it starts to take form and you can start seeing what it looks like in real life, the rest of the time it takes for you to actually finish it, you're like, there's no more new excitement. You already know it looks like. So there's no like dopamine hit. So like, but there is a dopamine and cast on your new project or when you start chaining a new one or swatching with your new yarn, you're like, Oh yeah, exciting and brand new. So I think to me that makes sense why that happens. But even still, yeah true i'm like, there have been projects that I'll start
00:23:52
Speaker
And I don't experience the dopamine hit. I experienced frustration because I'm trying to, s sleep for instance, um the the zipper hoodie that like the sleeveless one I'm eventually going to be doing. When I first started that one,
00:24:08
Speaker
I was actually very frustrated working with it because it was like nothing was working the way I was envisioning. Everything was like going wrong. I couldn't find a stitch pattern I liked. I sent you pictures and was like, which of these even looks good?
00:24:20
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And but then once it clicked, like once I found what I liked, I was all in like I was working swatch after swatch. I was making like versions of like I'm like so excited for it, but I was getting so excited for it.
00:24:35
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that I was like, oh no, I'm about to abandon the cardigan project a second time. So I was like, no, I need pause on this. You have abandoned that cardigan way more than twice.
00:24:46
Speaker
I have abandoned that cardigan so many times. um i which is why I need to not abandon it again. So I, i yeah I checked myself and was like, okay, I now have all the notes. I have all my swatches. even like actually have pieces of it like right here, but like I have all that there. Yes. And I'm like, okay, keep it there. It is in the time out, but not in a, I'm not getting back to it It's in a time out because otherwise all I'm going to do is work on that when I need to be working on it. Okay. yeah,
00:25:19
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that so So this project going into a timeout isn't really because of this project, actually. It's because you know you're going to get swept away in this one.
00:25:33
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So you have to like yeah pump the brakes. Otherwise, you'll lose track of like one or two other projects. Oh, that's really interesting. Wow. Yes. And, ah but I also can anticipate that there are going to be parts of it that I'm not excited about. Like the zipper part. I know I wanted to have a zipper, but I already know that that's going to be a frustrating part. um And so I'm not looking forward to that part. um But, but I know that that's the style I want in it. So yeah,
00:26:04
Speaker
That is going to be probably like if I'm going to ah actually abandon that project, that's going to be the point at which I know I'll abandon it. So if I can get through that part, I know I'll finish it. So I think that there's like, for instance, this, yeah, this cardigan, if I can just get that sleeve started, i know I will like work on it, but I just have to get that over that initial hump.
00:26:25
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Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, sometimes it's daunting. Like I know a lot of times too with those ah sweaters that have the fair isle yokes, but then the rest of it is just stockinette stitch, plain, yeah no detail, anything.
00:26:39
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I know a lot of times people get bored and because, you know, the beginning is so exciting, like doing color
Mindsets on Project Completion
00:26:46
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work. You get to see the pattern evolve and come together, like you said, like in real life.
00:26:51
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Actually, it's basically the point you made earlier, like at a certain point, there's nothing new. And so then it just becomes boring and repetitive. um But then you, I feel like you really do just have to push through that. Otherwise, you're never going to get to the end of any project.
00:27:08
Speaker
That's true. And I think that one thing that's kind of like telling about, i i know like not everything has to lead to some like big deep thing, but it always makes me think like, you know, we start at small levels and then we go into this kind of bigger, like, what does this mean about me as a human being? But I think how people approach- their knitting and crochet projects is very telling to like how they kind of approach things in life in general. Cause I know for me, like I've set my mind to do some things that I've been very excited about. I've taken on way more than I can handle. Like that's just me. Like I always overload my plate.
00:27:46
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And then I'm like, at some point in time, I have to take things off. Like, so that it's just, it's a cycle of gather a bunch of stuff, then slowly sift through the things I'm actually going to finish and commit to.
00:27:59
Speaker
And then the other things just kind of have to go by the wayside. And I just have to accept that about myself. So I think yeah that's very much why my projects are the way that they are. I cannot do one project at a time because I know myself, I will not force myself to continue working on that project. I will just,
00:28:15
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feel hatred for it the whole time and like, this is supposed to be fun. This is my hobby. Like, this is my craft. Like, I'm supposed to be having a good time. So I want to have a good time with new project. yeah Oh, my gosh. Well, then. So I'm actually the complete opposite of that. I will sit and finish a project even if I'm like, I hate this project now. Like, not so much that I hate the project, but I just hate that I'm still working on it.
00:28:43
Speaker
But yeah it kind of motivates me to be like, all right, well, guess what? if you If you hate that you're still working on it, there's one way to make sure that you never have to work on it again, and that's by finishing it.
00:28:55
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Finish the project and you never have to touch it again, except to like wear it. And you know what? if Even if you don't wear it, you'll never have to do anything with it again. It'll be done. you can keep it in the closet, can donate it, sell it.
00:29:10
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The point is, it will no longer be a whip that I have to work on or think about if I don't want. So I will have to deal with the guilt that I go through. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:21
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i So I will like sit myself down as if I'm like a child and the parent, you know, like I'm disciplining myself saying like, you will sit here and you will knit this, whatever it is until it's done. And you're not starting anything else until you finish this. Do you
The Importance of Finishing Touches
00:29:39
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hear me? ah But it makes sure that we get to the end point.
00:29:45
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Like, i I will finish it. Okay, so that sounds hilarious and kind of silly, I know, but like, that there is something to that because honestly, like when I was working on these gloves, I told myself I am not allowed to start working on these gloves as excited as I am with them until I've at least finished the cuff on that cardigan sleeve. So I made myself finish that cuff and then I got to work on the gloves.
00:30:11
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ah See? See? yeah Yeah, yeah. So I need to do something like that again to be like, you do not get to pick up this project until you have started the sleeve on this card again, Kelly. So, you know, maybe I should take some inspiration from you to do that. and maybe Yeah, totally. Yeah.
00:30:28
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I don't know. the thing is, too, like, ah they often say, like, you shouldn't reward yourself with, like, food all the time. Because then you'll just, like... like you should have other ways to reward yourself other than food. And I think a lot of times people lean towards food naturally. Like, Oh, if I finish this, like I'll give myself a nice treat.
00:30:48
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And like, those are, it's fine to do that, but you know, you have to have other things that can motivate you and be rewards that aren't always necessarily food or money or something.
00:31:00
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So I find it actually to be a good motivator for me. Like, You know, finish this project and you can get a dopamine hit by starting the next project, but you're not going to get it until you finish this.
00:31:13
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Which also, finishing a project will give you a dopamine hit also. You just have to like, push through the point of, you know, actually finishing it. Yeah, it's just, there's a difference. Yeah, and I think that, but there's a difference between like instant gratification and long-term gratification. And it is always harder to get that long-term gratification, especially like now when instant gratification is so ah readily commodified, like it is everywhere. And I think that's something that like in something as slow fashion as knitting or crochet or something,
00:31:50
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We want that fast hit of dopamine, which we can get from starting the new stuff or working on like the exciting portion of something, but then pushing through to be like, you know, we've got the longterm, we've got the longterm dopamine hit. We know we're going to get by the end, the satisfaction of having completing it.
00:32:08
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All these yarn ends are going to be here, whether we weave them in or not. And the longer we wait, the worst it's just gonna get. so just weave in the ends. But once you're done, that last yarn end, I know for me, that last yarn end, when I weave an end and realize it is the sweetest feeling, you're just like, there's no more. There's no more.
00:32:30
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But you easily- I love that feeling too. But I easily forget that and the next time I have to weave in ends, I'm like, I don't wanna do this, so I won't. No. I'm like, what Kelly, remember- For weaving in ends- I was going to say, remember, like weaving in ends will eventually end. It is not an infinite thing. You will finish at some point in time. You just have to do it. ah Yeah.
00:32:56
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Well, yeah, exactly. And my philosophy with weaving in ends, and I actually heard this from somebody at a local yarn shop, which I kept with me because I really like it. And I find it as like a a way to ah motivate myself to to weave in the ends. And that is like, you know, when you're at the point of weaving in ends, everything else is already done. Like usually weaving in ends or seaming is like the very last thing that you need to do.
00:33:25
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And so to me, I don't think it's fully complete until it's woven in um But what they said at the yarn shop was like, that is your very last chance to put love into the project. Like this is the very last time you're going to be handling the project, making changes and like
Reflecting on Project Management Styles
00:33:42
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putting, you know, your essence into the project. It's your last chance to bond with the project.
00:33:49
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So I see it as like, it's also an important step of like connecting with the piece. I don't know, maybe that's like too artsy, but you know, like it's still important. It's freaking beautiful.
00:34:03
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ah I thought it was beautiful. God. And you know, like, you know, I loves me some like, you know, bonding and connecting and pouring your like essence and the magic of working with. Oh my God.
00:34:19
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Oh, you're right. And that's very true. You're right. It is that last time that you actually get to work on that project Yeah. And maybe there's something about that where you're like, it is my last chance, but this means now that like, I don't have to finish the pro like, i I don't know. Like, yeah, it can be bittersweet if you think about it in that way of like, maybe some people don't weave in the ends because they just don't want to finish it.
00:34:46
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Um, I don't know. I just, i I like the process of weaving in ends. I don't necessarily love doing it, but I like that it's like a step-by-step, like you just find an end, weave it in.
00:35:00
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Find an end, weave it in. And then you eventually can say, oh I made this, you know? yeah But you'll never get there if you don't weave in the ends and it ends up in a graveyard, you know? That's true. i will. That is true. That is very true. And I think like one thing that's helped me with weaving and ends is the fact that I'm like, I take it section by section and I almost allow myself like stopping points because I'm like, if I have to do it for the whole project, it feels way too daunting. But if I piece it up into like,
00:35:31
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We even only end starting from the cuff of this sleeve up to the underarm cuff of the sleeve up to the underarm into the hem up to this part. And I know exactly where the ends are because I know where I like snipped off joint and things like that. So I know that by the time I reach a particular point, I'm like, these are the last ends I have to weave in. So as so long as I can get through them section by section, that kind of helps. So yeah.
00:35:54
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Since we've been talking for so long about whips and graveyards and weaving in the ends, it's about time to weave in the end of this
Conclusion and Audience Engagement
00:36:02
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conversation. Clever. clever.
00:36:05
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lover very cleverr Hope you guys enjoyed hearing us talk all about our whips and kind of how we manage multiple whips at a given time and, you know, what we do with our pile of graveyard whips. But we'd love to hear from you guys. Like, do you guys have a huge graveyard or do are you the type of person that never abandons projects?
00:36:26
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00:36:40
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