Shawn L. Bird

This has been a prolific winter of knitting!

• 5 sweaters
• 2 scarves
• 2 hats
• 1 mitten pair
• 1 wrist warmer pair

and one skirt in progress (and 3 sweaters in progress, and one half made sock and scarf from last year in progress).

Every year or two seems to involve focus on another hobby or craft.  Over the years I have played with a wide variety of crafts: sewing, cross-stitch, embroidery, calligraphy, silk ribbon embroidery, crewel, quilling, quilting, Brazilian embroidery, crocheting, folk art painting, scrapbooking, embossing, beading, portrait painting….  My craft room is overflowing with instruction books and supplies.  I can’t throw anything out because I cycle back to them all eventually, some more frequently than others. 

I am a  ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ kind of person.  I learn enough to produce some respectable projects, but then I get bored and move onto something new for awhile.

What about you?  Do you study a skill and stick with it until you are a real master?  Or do you have an attention span similar to mine?