Finish or not...

...just some thoughts..

I like to finish my objects, and i seldome have too much lying around. (may be I am a "control freak", that is not too good, lol!)

But I have started a pair of socks long time ago. I have finished several pairs later, and done much more work.

This pair of socks are OK, nice, good idea... you name it...! But when I try to knit more on those socks, I get a bad feeling... I know I did some of the former knitting in a periode that was not too good for me. But I cannot remember exactly what bothered me so much just then. But every time i take in that work, I do not like it, and feel bad.

I thought I should finish them and then give them away. Then I thought I would frog tem. But I do not like to have that yarn lying around, SO.. having finished more than 1 1/2 sock, I will now take them off the needles, throw them in the dustbin, and get free from them!!

I feel I have made the right decision, and I am redy to start on anything else, but THAT pattern, or those colores!

STRANGE??? AUD ;-)

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Aud
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Aud not strange at all, leave it in the past and pull the knitted parts of the socks out. Wind the wool up in a ball, and give it away. Turn a new page, and buy some nice new yarn and knit a new pair. Whatever it was that was giving your problems, is long past. You have moved on and so do not go back there and visit a difficult time. Someone else may be perfectly happy with the yarn, no loose connections at all.

Els

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Els van Dam

When I don't like the energy or feeling of what I am crocheting, I typically just cut the yarnfrom the partially-crocheted item and throw the item in the garbage too. I don't need any kind of reason or justification, I just do it.

David

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David Sky

That's not being a control freak, that's just being organized.

Not strange at all. Life's too short to be obsessed with finishing an optional project that you don't enjoy.

=Tamar

-- "Not all projects are meant to be." - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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Richard Eney

Aud, if 'dustbin' is the garbage, that's the right place for it. If it feels bad to you, and you're not enjoying working with that yarn, why continue ?

Rusty in CT and Dusty too

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Rusty

Excellent philosophy Els. I will take it to heart:)

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Ophelia

Aud, I am *way* overtired, but had to laugh at myself, as the heading of your post *appeared* to me as Finnish or not. And I wondered who or what you were wondering if someone or something was from Finland, LOL! I gotta rest! Hugs, Noreen

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Noreen's Knit*che

Hi Aud,

I have to agree with everyone and their suggestion to throw the socks away. We probably have all had it happen sometime in their life and it's not worth the trouble of continuing them and making you unhappy.

Hugs,

Nora

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norabalcer

Not at all strange, Aud! I think it can be hard because we've been taught not to waste things but it is good to get rid of the negative feelings associated with those socks.

Eimear

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ejk

They must remind you of a bad time, possibly one you can't remember.....like maybe when you left them you weren't feeling very well or something, it's like an old record that brings back memories....this is what this particular sock project seems to have done...or as you really do like to finish your projects, and haven't done with these, they make you feel bad about it....cos you know deep down if you had finished them you would be doing something else now not them..

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spinninglilac

Aud, I can understand what you feel, like you I always finish a project before starting another, but there was a time I was making a dress for myself and for a reason totally unknown to me I just could not finish it , somehow I felt that I was not doing the right thing by making this garment- I gave it away and someone else finished it I suppose. So the suggestions that you do not try to finish those socks sounds good to me. God Bless Gwen

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Gwendoline Kelly

"Aud" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net...

Thank you for ALL answers! I HAVE allready thown them away! ...but I needed the support! LoL!

Now I have only projects I see an end to..! Squares, a gift and the jacket I started, which is ready to be put together, and then there is a broad "ribbed edge" to be knitted around all of it. AUD ;-)

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Aud

Absolutely NOT strange at all. If something (anything) does not feel good or right to you, then it is best to get away from it and stay away. Whether it be because of some bad memories, or lingering feelings of sad times, or just a deep down inside gut feeling that something isn't right... just get away from it. If it means throwing it away, giving it away, or whatever... then that is what you have to do.

My sister gave me a ring once that I had admired. She liked it, but it bothered her to wear it (an inside feeling)... at the time I thought she was just being silly (how could a *ring* make you feel weird inside, when I love(d) rings so much) so I happily took it. It was a cluster ring with a lot of dark purple stones that looked like amethysts (but they were fake) and it was so pretty. I swear, everytime I wore that ring I had a weird and uneasy feeling deep down inside. Finally after having it for about a month, and feeling like that everytime I wore it or even held it in my hand while looking through my jewel box for something else, I told my sister she could have it back.... she didn't want it and told me to get rid of it whatever way I wanted to. I stood at the end of a field one day and threw the ring as far as I could, and that was the end of that! I've never felt that way about any other piece of jewelry.

When I was a teenager my Mom bought me a Quija Board because it was the *in* thing for teens to have at the time. My friends and I "played" with it ONCE and only once! It felt weird, wrong, disturbing, (whatever other word you can think of to put there that means a bad feeling inside)... so I slid it under a dresser in the back storage room, never to touch it again. When we were moving two years ago, and the boys moved the dresser... there it was in it's box. I picked the box up, and sure enough there was that feeling again (of course, I wasn't happy about moving out of the home my parents had wanted us to have anyway... but this was a different kind of bad feeling, the kind I hadn't felt since the last time I touched the Quija Board)... so I left it sitting there on the floor when we moved everything else from the house. I have no idea if the buyers took it or got rid of it... their choice... I just didn't want it near me again.

Also while we were moving I came across a box of books that I had bought at a yard sale (already boxed up, so you were surprised at whatever was on the bottom row). I looked through the box and took what I wanted, planning on giving the rest to the library. There amongst the bottom row was a book about Devil Worship. I definitely did not want that book, Matthew's best friend who was helping us move suggested burning it, but Matthew said he didn't feel good about doing that either... so we just packed it up with a few other books that didn't have that uneasy feeling about them, and donated them all to the library figuring if they didn't want it they could get rid of it in whatever way they deemed right.

So as you can see... I have no problem whatsoever of you or anyone else getting rid of things that don't feel good to you. :o)

Peace! Gemini

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

Oh good, glad to see I'm not the only one who read it that way!

Also very sleepy, LauraJ

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