I hope that you are all having a very happy and crafty week. I am still ploughing through the sleeves. One is finally finished and the second one is about a third of the way done.
This making of sleeves has led me to much thinking. I can’t read while I am knitting because the pattern is too complicated for that and, as I do a lot of my crafting at work, tv is out so that leaves thinking.
I started to muse on the second sock and/or the second sleeve syndrome and why I never suffer from that. I do, however, suffer really, really badly from the first sock or sleeve syndrome. I am always excited to start a new something and get myself going nicely only to find that the work is BORING! I start to think about the next project and find myself slowly but surely hating the current one. The “I am only half way through the first one and I still have to finish and start one more just the same” kind of hate.
    
I have found, at least it works for me, that if I count sections, for example, I am one quarter of the way through, then on third, that the work seems to go a lot faster. I also need to focus on the process itself rather than feeling like I have to rush to the end. I think that this way of thinking makes the work go faster.
Once the first one, sock or sleeve or mitt, is done, the second is a piece of cake. I am so excited about how pretty the first of the pair is that I just want to get on and get the second one finished. No second something syndrome for me. I think that I will rename it first sock or sleeve syndrome!
I should confess that I haven’t been devoting my entire crafting time to the sleeves. I have managed to accumulate a pile of not quite finished projects, three kid’s sweaters and a poncho as well. So maybe it is not a syndrome at all but just a sign of a scattered mind.
I hope that all of your first and seconds are happily done (and match) this week and have a great seven days of craftiness.
