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What to perfect?

December 26, 2009 in Uncategorized, yarn by Sarah

I am not sufficiently disciplined to not want to start something when I decide to stop doing other things.  As not starting something when you stop doing something would just be silly, and much too disciplined for me.  I have stopped selling on Etsy, reading any number of blogs, checking my email too many times a day, watching too much TV, and other things that escape me at the moment.

The corresponding thing I will start doing (again) is knitting others’ patterns.  I am somewhat happy with where my design is, but I feel that if I want to take it to the next level I will need to start knitting others’ patterns.  I have never found classes or discussion to be effective ways for me to learn knitting (I learned almost entirely from books): the only way I have ever really learned anything is from knitting it myself.

I was inspired by this article about Tiger Woods last week.  I want to live in that pursuit of excellence, and have the courage to cut out anything that is not perfection.

I have also started cooking more and as proof — my shopping list of last week:

shoppinglist

I almost think I should start a cooking blog — that may be taking things too far by the time I finished making anything the light would be gone and I couldn’t take good pictures of it.

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Please leave a comment or email me at sarah (at) parallaxknitting (dot) com, you can also read about my cooking adventures at Bounded in a Nutshell

My patterns

A glove by any other name

Gloves can be deceiving

Josephine

Lyra’s cap

Lyra's coat

Minimalist funnel neck

Morse code vest

Pink leafy scarf

Russian princess in exile

Slouch hat

Urban rustic gloves

West wind gloves

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Wisp

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