How do you decide on what you’re going to make next? I used to have quite a Pinterest addiction. It all started when I was breastfeeding my third baby, each time I sat down to feed him I opened up the Pinterest app and started browsing. I have thousands of projects pinned to my crochet board. How many have I actually made?? About 4!!!
Since starting my public Instagram account I have barely touched the Pinterest icon. That was not a conscious decision, it just seems to have been a natural switch in the use of my time.
Dropbox has now become one of my favourite apps! I find pdf patterns, both paid for and free ones and copy them to dropbox. I don’t have as many on there as I do on Pinterest but I am actually working my way through them.
My use of technology is not the point. What I’m more interested in is how you or I decide on what we’re making next. And, how do you actually know a pattern is right for you? I have discovered over lockdown that I am definitely more likely to finish a project if it uses various techniques to produce different textures and interesting bits to look at. I am not a fan of doing the same stitch over and over again. This may be because I am much more confident in my ability to produce something that is more intricate these days. Along with my unwavering belief of if you don’t try you will never know! (And possibly also the fact that I am quite gung-ho and refuse to be defeated – bloody minded my mum would call it!!!)
I have all the patterns ready for my Christmas gifts this year, and more shockingly all the yarn to make them. From Toft Cro Your Own to mandalas to sprouts I am totally ready and know what I’ll be making over the next few months.
After that? Who knows! I have patterns a plenty the one I most want to make for me is Ludo from my all time favourite film Labyrinth (if you’ve not seen it – watch it!) Cottontail & Whiskers designed the pattern, it is in my Dropbox folder ready to go, I even have the Ice eyelash yarn. I’m hoping he’ll be joining Mr Stag on the wall early next year.
Before that however I have my Little Box of Crochet Advent
and Toft Twixmas to look forward to.
If you have any suggestions of other awesome patterns to make please let me know. I struggle mostly with what to make the men in my life! Any ideas are greatly received!
So every year I tell myself I’m going to make things just for me and then end up making most things for others, which “controls” what I choose to make. For example “2020 is my year for sweaters,” turned into “ok…just ONE more Baby Yoda.”lol I’m ok with it for the most part, but do keep longingly looking at both my Pinterest board and “saved” IG pics. 🙂
That’s it though isn’t it. If it’s something for yourself it so easily gets dropped to make for someone else!