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Kelly Spenhoff

🧶 My season of starting is going strong!

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hello! How are you? Did you start anything new over the long weekend? I’ve done nothing but start knitting projects lately! 🤪🤣

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Every idea that crosses my mind gets cast on these days. I’m calling it my season of starting.

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I’m mostly just calling it that in my head when I’m contemplating the situation. I really hope it’s followed by a season of knitting and then a season of finishing. 🫠

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There’s no progress because all my knitting time is being eaten up by the starting! I just counted and I have 8 knitting projects and one crochet project going right now. 🫣 At least 5 of them are things that I intend to finish.

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Luckily, there’s a couple days of car knitting coming up for me. Let’s see how I do when my yarn stash isn’t calling to me from the corner of the room.

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I did get some bamboo yarn to knit myself a new wrap, like I was telling you about last week. The woman at Michaels asked me “What are you making to match your hair?” It was a highlight of my week.

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I can’t think of anything else interesting, so I guess I’ll go work on it now! Reply and let me know: are you a serial starter or do you finish one project before you start the next?
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Thanks for being here!
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Kelly Spenhoff

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