I’ve been working a pair of ugly socks. I’m using up all my scraps of sock yarn from projects past, switchingc colours whenever I feel like it. They’re turning out spectacularly, and I’m really excited to have ‘em done. I think I might actually get 4 or 5 socks out of the project and then I can mix and match.
This photo, on the other hand, is of my favourite sock-shoe combination.
First, from A Softer World:
And this, from Mia Nolting:
So since I’ve been writing about getting things capital-D Done, it makes sense to post the Cult of Done manifesto here:
The Cult of Done Manifesto
I can’t say that I follow all these rules, nor that I want to. I’m a graduate student, a planner, I like to think things through and make sure that I’m picking the right course of action (which is especially important when making decisions about other people’s lives and environments!), but keeping all this in mind is really helpful. Especially if thinking is doing (it is), and writing is doing, and telling other people about your idea is doing.
My favourite is point 8: the anti-perfection declaration. That’s how I felt in quilt class; while I was impressed that people were taking their blocks apart and re-doing them because pieces were a quarter-inch wider than they wanted, that’s not my style. I’d rather do, work, make more. I don’t like to agonize.
I guess I just mean to say that the Cult of Done doesn’t apply in all circumstance, and you have to know when it works and when it doesn’t. I probably need to focus more on NOT following these rules and I’d be prouder of some of the papers I’ve written and sweaters I’ve knit, but I’d rather be a doer who makes some mistakes than deliberate forever and have one perfect thing to show for it after 15 years.
This is me on the floor of Emily’s apartment, cutting out squares of fabric. In December.
I’ve posted about this before, also in December, this secret project that will be sure to amaze and delight its intended recipient. I was going to have it done before the new year!
Clearly, that didn’t happen.
I mean, there’s this
but that’s hardly a whole quilt. And most of it is still in squares on the sewing table.
I’m using the Crafty Slacker challenge as motivation to get it done before the deadline of March 16. Possibly irrational, but I organized the piles of tiny squares and pinned some of them together and now I want to see them sewn together so badly that I think it’s truly possible.
Projects! I want more of them! And I want to Get Them Done! Yes!
I finished this crocheted afgahn in November of 2005. I’ve been usinging to sleep under and rad on the couch with and give to guests when they crash. I’ve taken it on trips and am even using a photo of it as the header of my blog here!
Thing is, it’s not really done yet. There are about 8 million yarn ends to weave in, and I know that it will be a much more glorious project if I get it done. I worked on it during last year’s Oscars, and hauled it to Quilt Sunday at the workroom at least once. But mostly, I’m making no progress.
But thanks to the Crafty Slackers Get ‘er Done giveaway at the Toronto Craft Alert, I’m thinking about working on it again. I can’t really take this mammoth thing on the subway or work on it in class, so it probably wont’ happen before the March 16th project deadline, but I’m on it! Going to happen!
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