I appear to be suffering from Second Sleeve Syndrome. This is, of course, the older brother to Second Sock Syndrome. (After having finished one sock it becomes difficult to go on and finish the second one to make a pair.) I am working on a sweater, and you start by knitting the sleeves. The first one just seemed to fly by, but man… this second one is taking forever. But I suppose that knitting a sweater with one sleeve would just be silly, right?
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Yeah. It definitely happens in all aspects of life. I remember it well from the sysadmin world, too. Fortunately, with system administration, it was generally possible to script the tedious stuff away. 🙂
In knitting, there are process knitters and project knitters. The former knit just to be knitting. It doesn’t really matter what they’re making, or why, so long as they’re knitting. For the latter, seeing the finished product is the goal, and whatever they have to go through to achieve that goal is tolerable.
I am usually a process knitter. I just love knitting, and can easily do the “Oooh, shiny!” thing and jump to a new project, though I do love me a finished product. But, the thing that will most likely drive me cast on a new project is the tedium of doing something I *just* did, you know?
… And this was probably more babbling than you were looking for on the topic. 🙂
Kathy suffers from this as well. She knitted me a slipper. I’ve been waiting 25 years for it’s mate.
yep! I have many 80% complete projects… the final details are never as interesting as starting something else… 🙂
Same here. I keep waiting for this to finish its self….
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