There are 300 projects in my Ravelry Queue. I think if you go to my profile and click on queue, you should be able to see them . . if you care to look.
Last Items on the Queue
For an item to be on the queue, my rule is that I have to have the yarn for it already. A few of those items take one skein. Hats. Mitts. Some take 3 or 4 skeins. Shawls. Scarfs. Many are sweaters that take 6 or more skeins. That’s a lot of projects and a lot of yarn. I know I say this every year but in 2018, I really want to work on the projects in my queue and stop adding projects. If I were to finish one project per month . . that’s 12, per year, I’d need 25 years just to knit everything off the queue. No matter how optimistic I may be, I doubt I’ll be doing a whole lot of knitting in 25 years. If I knit 20 projects per year, which is possible so long as some of them are small projects, I can get everything knitted in 15 years. That’s within the realm of possibility . . that I’ll still be knitting a lot when I’m 78. Maybe.
No matter how you look at it, chances are . . I’ll never knit everything in my queue so I have to stop buying yarn and patterns.
Now . . assuming I stick with my plan and knit from the queue, here are the things I would like to get done in 2018.
Shawls:
Sweaters:
That’s four shawls and four sweaters. If I could get those eight things made, along with maybe a couple more shawls, a hat or two, some socks and a bit of cleaning up of the queue, I think I could end 2018 with 275 items on my queue. That’s my goal . . down to 275 items by December 31, 2018. There are quite a few things started that need to be finished but . . I’ll get to those some day.
Who thinks I can do it? 🙂
Karen Sutton says
Oh dear. I never looked at it like that – or did the math. I’ve got 306 items in my queue.
Carolyn says
With how quickly you accomplish things you set your mind to, I have no doubt you can do it! Of course, you don’t have any cute little patterns for Addie, so you might have to include a few of those…
Joyce says
I only have 34 in my queue, but I also don’t have all my planned projects in the queue. Many times I start a project and put it in Ravelry and then realize it was in the queue, and I should have started it from there…oops! I also don’t have yarn for everything in the queue. I use it more as a reminder of the projects I really, really want to make. Then I look around and see “shiny” and go after that project instead. LOL I do have all my yarn in Ravelry, and the last I checked I had enough sock yarn for about 50 pairs of socks and sweater quantities for about 40 sweaters…of course I don’t have anything in the stash for the latest sweater pattern I found that I really, really want to make. That always seems to happen, thus the yarn for 40+ sweaters.
justquiltin says
You can do it! I need to do a queue and library clean out. My queue I normally just put patterns I want to go back and look at when I have more time or things I want to make but haven’t bought the pattern. I’ve stopped buying patterns until I want to make them (except for all those patterns I amass when I change my mind on a Loopy Camp project or something like that). I also have things in the library that I haven’t purchased yet so need to clean up both – one of these days. I was just tallying up finished projects this year and yardage and I’m within 100 yards of the total yards I knit last year and will surpass that with a project I haven’t added yet so I’m pleased with that.
Diane in CA says
And if you did 20 a year, and gave 20 a year to a knitting guild or some knitter who can’t afford yarn anymore you could be shopping again in 7.5 years.. !!
Nelle Coursey says
I believe in you! You got this!!
Dar says
I have faith that you will reach your 2018 goals. Maybe Addie will start knitting soon and can take some of your smaller projects and yarn so you won’t have as much as you think. lol
danielle nabozny says
Maybe I would work better on stash busting if I did this….but I don’t do queues. I can barely do project pages! Thanks to you I have 4 projects done for GAL 2017, all from stash. Thot I was going to be able to do a 5th from stash butt ended up having to order yarn for #5 and 6……now looking at 7 and debating what to use for it
Maggie says
I think you can do it, as long as you can avoid the new exciting things you will see along the way. That would be my problem, I would say oh I will only work on projects already planned, but then I get inspired by new things and forget about the old plans.