are you aware that the yarn moratorium is ending soon?
oh, shit! not as soon as i thought, though. i thought it ended in MARCH. and it doesn't end until mid-april?
this is particularly bad, because i had planned to tack an extra month onto it, since i did buy two balls of yarn to finish edmund bacon. it had to be done, and i don't regret it, but i was going to add an extra month onto my ascetic journey because of that little stumble... but may? wait until may?
there've been times when this was very hard. it's been occasionally hard as far back as august, but everything's hard in august. i hit a bad point around the holidays, when spending time in the yarn store was just becoming painful, and i thought i was ready to go off the wagon then; i heard myself saying, "i NEED yarn -- the only yarn i have at home is for this project, and this one, and this one." and i left the store empty-handed and sad, and thinking i didn't have yarn.
that time, the perspective i got just being away from yarn that wasn't mine was enough to get me back on track. out of sight, out of mind. that time.
overall, there's empirical proof of how well this experiment worked for me, over the course of these last 10-ish months: just look at the blog. it's been great.
however. i've got things i want to make next and they aren't the things that the yarn i do have left can be part of -- nor do i feel like trolling e bay or etsy or spinning or bartering. i have projects in mind, knitting projects in MY MIND, and they require large amounts of reliable, homogeneous, uniform-of-structure-and-composition-and-there's-more-where-that-came-from YARN.
fuck the extra month. april thirteenth it is.
mind you, it's not going to be a slobbering free-for-all. i've just got a new set of parameters planned. we can talk about that later. for the time being, though, i'm really dragging my feet on knitting, because nothing feels good and nothing feels fun. then again, it seems i can go for longer now without knitting becuase i'm working on so many things i didn't know how to do before. and maybe i'll have one more second wind, as it were. or maybe i'll just sew and embroider and do canvaswork and print print print. dunno yet. i'm not bored. but i'm not knitting, either.