Project paralysis

I'm at the end of my pink cotton socks and need to think about my next cast-on. But, the thing is: despite being completed over-excited (in a magpie-in-jewel-shop, kid-in-lolly-shop kind of way) about my vast stash, I now also feel strangely immobilized.

It’s as if I had sped up with projects as I neared the end (or, at least, end-ish) of my stash and now the huge number of awaiting projects has completely discombobulated me.

I wonder if I can find a circular needle long enough to cast on every single waiting project so I can knit them concurrently, like Helen's pair of socks??!

For impatient souls like me – knitting is a tricky pastime. I have to stick to my house rules:

• only 3 projects on the needles at any one time;
• write down any pattern-changes as I go rather than relying on the dubious idea that I'll remember them all;
• less haste, more speed;
• when I make an error, however small, I must rip-back rather than make-do; and
• stop trying to inhale patterns immediately, take the time to read them slowly and ponder them first.

What are other people's knit-rules?   

Comments

[VP]

I have the same problem with tapestry at the mo. I've just finished 2 projects and nearly finished the 3rd and find myself all of a dither.

Do I haul out another kit? Or do make inroads into a seriously large wool stash and start on 1 of the 5 designs in my head that are crying to get out? Or do I finish off the 2 unfinished tapesties I've just been given (with half a dustbin bag of wool to boot)?

My solution so far is to leave it all in the study, shut the door and run a way whimpering!