Designing Isn't All Fun
Any designers out there? If so you will understand what I am about to write about. If not perhaps you can apply it to other aspects of life?
So, as you know I design sock patterns for Sockamania. Each month I create a sock pattern..knit the socks, create the pattern, then publish it for the Sockamania members to knit up the following month. I usually start with some kind of theme--summer, autumn leaves, winter skies, etc. This helps me start brain storming what I would like to create. The color scheme, lace or multi-colored, etc.
From there I get the yarn, or dye the yarn, and start the sock. Here is where if something is going to go wrong it does. I don't get it. All the planning and brainstorming should result in a sock being created right? Wrong. Somehow, at some point, the sock idea falls apart and I find myself knitting a sock that I HATE. Once I reach that point I think to myself, "If I hate it everyone else will hate it also." Following that thought I find myself avoiding the project--NOT A GOOD IDEA WHEN YOU HAVE A DEADLINE.
This doesn't happen every month--THANK GOODNESS--but often enough that something needs to be done. See, this month is less than a week to the end and I haven't even finished the sock for next month. Not to mention, I haven't even started writing the pattern. NOT GOOD! I've been lying to myself that I will do it this weekend, but I know that come this weekend I will find something more fun to do than knit a sock I hate--you know, fun stuff like laundry, vacuuming, dishes, etc. anything that keeps me from having to knit that sock. I was even toying with the idea of starting over this morning--a desperate idea that I know is impossible. I am a fast knitter, but knitting is only part of the process.
I don't know what to do. Finish the hideous sock from hell or see if I can do the entire process on a whole new idea in 6 days. The whole new idea sounds way more fun........................
