Too many choices?
I learned to crochet in 1989, when I was a new mom of a breastfed baby and sometimes needed a hobby other than reading to occupy my mind while feeding her. I was young and poor, so the only crochet patterns I could get my hands on were from library books and the old crocheting magazines my mom would find at yard sales for a dime or a quarter each (which was also where I got most of my yarn). It never occurred to me that someday I would own dozens of crochet pattern books, and have access to literally thousands of free crochet patterns on something called the World Wide Web (which was just being invented, and I wouldn’t know about it for several years yet).
It’s ridiculously easy to find free patterns, on such wondrous sites as Ravelry, Lion Brand Yarn, Caron, Coats & Clark, Bernat, and Lily Sugar ‘n Cream. I have quite the collection. Plus I subscribe to Crochet! Magazine and Crochet Today, and regularly pick up copies of Interweave Crochet as well — all of which are neatly saved in magazine holders. It’s an embarrassment of riches, which my children will one day have to sort through (unless I’m lucky enough to eventually have a crocheting grandchild, in which case he or she will inherit whatever Lyse’s willing to part with).
We won’t even get into the size and variety of my yarn stash. I’d say it’s fair to call me a yarnaholic, and leave it at that.
So… the problem I’m having now is that I’m a bit overwhelmed with questions like: What project do I want to start next? What pattern should I use? What color yarn? What kind of yarn?
It’s almost enough to make me finish all the WIPs that sit in my project baskets, taunting me.
Almost.
