I have lost my momentum again. I had an incredibly fun, but busy summer and fall. It changed my habits and I don't reach for my knitting needles as often. I have finished hat #80. To reach my goal of 100 hats by the end of the year, I need to change my momentum.
I mentioned months ago about organizing my queue, which has helped. Although I still love those patterns, I needed something new to get me back on track. This time I turned to my Ravelry library. Did you know you can search your own library?
Included in my library is every pattern I have purchased or downloaded along with every book I own. Keeping it up-to-date has helped a lot when I am trying to figure out where I have seen the pattern before and if I have it somewhere. But now it is bringing me new ideas for hat patterns.
If you go to your library page and scroll down a little bit, you see "search patterns in library" in the lefthand column. I clicked on accessories, which brings up more patterns than I want. To narrow it down to hats, I click on the check for all accessories to make it disappear and then click on the "hats" box to check it.
Now I can look at every hat pattern that I already have. I can narrow my search further by many options - age or gender - yarn weight - yarn yardage - hat characteristics like cables or color work. It is a great place to look for inspiration or to find something specific in patterns you already have.
Stay tuned. Do you think I will make it to 100 by December 31st? I'm not so sure.
