Every once in a while you will see an article in the knit mags about process vs product. Sometimes this is mentioned under tackling the UFO’s articles. You know how do you approach your knitting projects if your process oriented vs how to approach if your product oriented. Both orientations have their pros and cons. For the process oriented your most likely to acquire tons of yarns and patterns and give em a whirl but never actually end up with a FO. Of course eventually you have tried almost everything under the sun and there is no zesty knitting to try. Then your stuck having to be a product orientated knitter. The product orientated knitter will plod through something even if the techniques and yarn and color and size are all wrong and end up with UFO’s that don’t quite cut it for one of the above reasons. Starting as a process knitter and ending as a product knitter is, of course ideal, cause you obliterate the cons of product knitting. Unless you paralize yourself overthinking processes while producing the product….

I have been thinking about this for a few days since I find myself acting like a process knitter without any of the zestiness factor. Plus I am a product knitter by necessity. Do I need a deadline to actually finish anything? Will I ever enjoy the process again? Of course I enjoy knitting but border on the paralized with non-work stuff. Am I the only one walking around uninspired? Or is it overwhelmed with options? So many nice patterns but nothing particularly challenging on the plate…. In a quandry here.