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Creatively Stumped (or, Why I Started This Blog)!

Seriously struggling with all the ideas and inspiration out there in crochet-land and knitting-land.  I cannot focus on one or two ideas and run with them.  Researching one project or pattern or yarn usually leads to another, and before I know it, I'm at one of the retail sites buying something that I wasn't looking for in the first place.  Rinse and repeat.  It's exhausting and frustrating. I'm a natural-born reader and follower, but this character trait of mine seems to have morphed into something that hinders me creatively, in that I spend more time and energy looking at what others have done rather than doing it myself.  I desperately want to do it myself; I have that need to create and craft.  I'm not talking about content creation.  I don't have an original idea at all.  I just want to make things following a pattern or using a yarn.  And it's all so darn enticing! Plan the First:  Limit time on social media.  Read/view/stalk my pretties and fancies on