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Do you find that you collect ideas faster than you can commit to them?
Plugging away at work this morning I found in my subdirectories a chunk of free patterns- a whole folder full of tantalizing patterns and pictures, entitled "Rainy Day." It appears that in my web-travels my lust for cute patterns has snuck up on me. Mindlessly, I have been tossing anything that perks my interest into this little e:cubby for that 'rainy day.' Of course, when the time is right, I am always home and nowhere near my work computer, so that doesn't help.
I printed off the patterns to take home and deleted the evidence, in case our web administrator decided to poke around my drives during my upcoming maternity leave. (Is this beginning to sound like some form of addiction? Let's see...compulsive behavior *check* ...hiding the evidence *check*)
Easy Delite cap from the ladies at Zephyr! Mikado fingerless gloves from Crystal Palace Yarns! Why haven't I tried these yet? Does anyone else have a folder in which they stash countless fun and easy weekend projects that are never to be done? Come to think of it, just having these patterns at my disposal is almost as exciting as having a finished version of them in my hands. Just the potential of whipping off an adorable peapod hat for someone's baby shower, or felted flowers to trim a birthday gift gives me the warm fuzzies. Elbow-length fingerless gloves-so cool! Meanwhile, not a single pattern is suitable for the growing stash of yarn I have at home.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just print them out and take them home and put them in a folder

maryse said...

i have stashes of patterns on every computer i have access to, including 2 at work.

Carole Knits said...

I have loads of patterns that I'll probably never knit. But sometimes you get lucky and find just the right pattern and just the right yarn sitting in the stash. Have a nice weekend, Heather.

Anonymous said...

Oh, you betcha, babe! I bookmark so many patterns I'm grateful my bookmark function still works. I even have an e:cubby (love that phrase)for photos of knits strangers are wearing in hopes that someday I will play with design elements. I'm sure someday some maitre d' will have me hauled off for annoying other patrons with my camera (though I do turn the flash off).