Hi, I’m Jillian, and I have unfinished business. A lot of it. 

What kind of unfinished business? The crafting kind.

I’m a long-time knitting instructor and fibre alum here and, as some of you know, I also spend my weekday hours lawyering for the federal government (feel free to insert your own disclaimer here about how none of my views represent those of my employer). As many of my students know, I excel at starting new projects. However, my ability to finish my old ones has been, let’s say, lacking. I have tried everything to get down to a reasonable number of WIPs. I will never be the kind of knitter who only works on one project at a time—that’s just not me. However, I am someone who can recognize that the chaos of my knitting queue is one of my own creation and realize that something has to change. Somewhere in the last handful of years, this pile of Unfinished Objects (UFOs) not only grew exponentially, but also started to create anxiety. 

Which created avoidance-like behaviors. 

Which fed back into the initial problem of starting new projects instead of finishing old ones. Add in a handful of babies, family gifts, and a few instances of personal medical leave, and, well, you get the idea. 

Maybe you’re in this place, too–and we know that the fibre space community is all about support, so let’s take care of business together! I invite you to join me here approximately once a month to travel through my current works in progress, watch me tackle untangling where I am in each of these projects, and follow the progress as I bind off some of this long unfinished business! 

Next month I will walk you through the sock surgery (yes, surgery!) that got this blog off the ground.