The Knitting Queue

A little friendly competition causes me to do things I wouldn’t normally do, and yet I don’t consider myself a competitive person. At red lights, Vince always wants to be first. I never care if I’m first or last. Vince is always trying to figure out which checkout lines go the fastest at Walmart. He looks at what’s in people’s carts, he looks at the customer, he looks at the checker . . I usually just glance at a couple of lines, pick one and I’m done. He’ll sometimes move from line to line . . makes me crazy!

But let The Loopy Ewe or Eat, Sleep, Knit offer some program that’s the least bit competitive, and I cannot walk away. I said I wasn’t doing Loopy Academy but in the end, I caved! For the past four days, ESK has had some competition between the four teams. Today was my team’s day. I said I wasn’t going to order much . . FAIL!

When I order yarn, I immediately put the project in my Ravelry queue so I’m not looking at the yarn two years from now trying to figure out why I bought that yarn!

Ravelry Queue

Every time I look at my queue, I am sadly reminded that I have more items in there than I’ll ever get done. Sure, there are some things that may have lost their appeal but I leave them in the queue because the yarn is listed so when I find a yarn in my stash that I want to use, I can cross reference with the queue and make sure I’m not using a  yarn that was set aside for another project. If it’s for a project I no longer *really* want to make, I’ll use the yarn and delete that project.

So, with 244 projects in my queue, if I never add another project (right!), and if I knit 12 items a year, I’ll have projects for 20 years. It’s possible but not likely I’ll ever get all 244 projects done. Thank goodness Nicole loves knitting and I hope Addie will be a knitter too . . if she can just put the fishing pole down long enough to learn to knit!  🙂