Knitting for people who don’t actually have time

There is this sentence that we knitters actually hear quite often from the circle of friends or acquaintances: “I would like to knit so much, but I just don’t have time.”

And yes, that sounds pretty understandable at first. After all, everyday life is rarely so friendly to suddenly serve two quiet hours on a silver platter. Usually he comes with laundry, appointments, messages, an empty refrigerator and this one thing around the corner, which you actually wanted to do yesterday. Very attentive of him, as always.

It feels like we often wait for that one right moment when we work with hands, which actually does not happen so often in real life. This perfect moment with coffee, candles, cozy couch, complete peace and feeling, now start a little time out as from the home magazine. That would be nice. Of course, let's take it immediately. The only problem is that if knitting is allowed to take place only when everything is done, we can actually forget it right away.

It doesn’t always have to be a big knitting evening. Sometimes it's just a few stitches in between. Two rows after lunch. A little bit in the evening before you land on your phone again and scroll through things that bring you neither joy nor new socks. Just five minutes that fit somewhere in everyday life and where you suddenly realize: That’s exactly what I needed now.

This may sound unspectacular, but there is something beautiful in it. Handicrafts cheat into the day. Between dates and to-do lists. Not perfectly planned, but quite effective. Because scam for scam, something emerges that remains. Visible, tangible, not swiped away and not disappeared anywhere in the digital nowhere. A moment that doesn’t have to be productive and it still is somehow in the end.

So maybe it’s not about suddenly having an infinite amount of time for a new hobby. Maybe it's more about making it a little bit easier. The knitwear is at hand when just a few minutes are free. Not somewhere at the back of the closet, but where you see it and think: Oh come, a row goes out.

Five minutes is not a ridiculous start. Two stitches are not nothing. A number counts. Even if it is slow. Because a piece of knit can grow as it grows. Sometimes with small breaks in between, because life does not always sit well and wait.

So, if someone feels approached: You don’t need the perfect moment to start. A ball, needles and a bit of permission on oneself are often enough. The rest will come gradually. Not always fast, not always neat, sometimes with small detours. But honestly, these are usually the better stories anyway.

In line with the topic, we have of course also packed one or the other knitting project for you in our webshop. Projects for in between, for small free moments and for everyone who might finally want to pick themselves up now, because you obviously do not have to sacrifice your whole life for it.

And then, of course, there are also projects for those who have long known how this ends: You start with a row, are suddenly full of knitting fever and realize at some point that you have perhaps very willingly left your life to this hobby.

Let's start with this. COZYMIO Twilly from Atelier vH. This is really a project for in between. For this project, you can wonderfully use a leftover skein of cashmere. So one of those special balls that you pick up because they’re way too beautiful to just disappear somewhere.

From only one soft ball of cashmere yarn, a narrow scarf with noble fluff is created with this guide. The shawl is a warm neck flatterer and at the same time a fine accessory that makes each outfit a little bit cuddly.

Knitting is done in the classical rib pattern, combined with a delicate hole pattern edge. This makes the shawl look beautifully harmonious from both sides and gets exactly this mixture of simple, noble and pleasantly soft.

Then it goes on with the COZYMIO. COZYMIO is a so-called mindless knitting project, so exactly the kind of project in which the hands almost know by themselves after a short time what to do. The pattern is catchy, the stitches quickly find their rhythm and you can knit wonderfully row by row in front of you.

If that doesn’t sound like the perfect project for a quick five minutes in between, then we honestly don’t know either.

For all of us, who sometimes struggle with knitting instructions a bit and for whom it does not even come to the first two rows, because even the instructions raise more questions than answered, we recommend gladly PetiteKnit.

The instructions are usually described very accurately and comprehensibly, so that you do not have to ponder for hours about what the next stitches probably want from you. And that’s what can help incredibly at the beginning. Because if you do not get off mentally when reading the instructions, that is already half the rent.

And now, of course, there are a few knitting projects for all those of us who have already fully dedicated ourselves to knitting. So for those who are no longer considering whether to start, but at most, which project they will start next, while actually three others are on the needles.

And just so that it is clear: we do not want to make an evaluation here, of course. Starting small is wonderful. This category is simply aimed at those people who have almost certainly knitted all existing shawls, no longer get nervous at tops and think “Oh nice” rather than “Oh God” in new projects.

Well, that was it again from our side. We hope it was one or the other knitting project for you. And maybe now someone feels addressed who has always said: “I would like to, but I just don’t have time.”

Maybe it doesn’t always have to be that much time. Sometimes it is enough to have the knitwear at hand and to knit a few stitches in between. The rest is usually self-evident.

In this sense, we wish you a successful knitting weekend again and read us again in two weeks. Until then, lay the knitting gear somewhere where you see it. You never know when a row will run out.

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