30 signs you have O.C.K.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Knitting Disorder)!
30 signs you have O.C.K.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Knitting Disorder)!:
We’re not saying this is bad, but common symptoms and behaviors of O.C.K.D (Obsessive Compulsive Knitting Disorder) include the following…are you shamelessly guilty?
- Your inbox has more knitting related newsletters and announcements than emails from family.
- You order knitting supplies on that “secret” credit card so your significant other won’t find out.
- You fear your yarn being contaminated by germs or dirt.
- You fear someone causing harm to your WIP because you may cause harm to them.
- Your car has a knitting bumper sticker that says “I just want to go home and knit” or something similar.
- You have an excessive focus on knitting ideas.
- You fear losing or not having notions you might need even when you’re not knitting.
- You refuse to visit any locale unless you can first find at least 2 LYS in the area to visit.
- You must have complete order and symmetry: the idea that every stitch must line up “just right”.
- You pay excessive attention to knitting orders (e.g., stalking your KnitCrate shipments at work).
- You have a inability to complete a WIP without starting another.
- You refuse to say no to a KAL regardless of how busy you are.
- You’ve trained your children and/or loved ones to wait to approach you when you’re counting.
- You swear you have the perfect line up of WIPs until you see what a friend is knitting and you have to add that to your que.
- You keep a WIP in your glove compartment “just in case” you get stuck in a traffic jam.
- Ordering or arranging your yarn stash “just so”.
- While organizing your stash you find several skeins that you have no idea where or when you bought them.
- Accumulating a “mega stash” with yarn you’ll never use because you just know you’ll find that perfect pattern one day.
- Your stash grows exponentially to the number of WIPs you have.
- When something goes right at work your reward is a yarn shopping spree.
- You’ve worn a groove into your fingernail from helping your yarn off your needle.
- You’d rather go shopping for yarn than for clothes.
- When you do go shopping for clothes you see a sweater, hat, etc. and think “I could knit that”.
- You stay up late at night because you have to do “just one more row”.
- You mumble in your sleep things like “just one more row”.
- You can’t see yarn without touching it.
- You type all words that should start with “n” with “kn”.
- You have more than one blog, one for life and one for knitting.
- Your family have to qualify “Lets have dinner tonight” with “but don’t bring your knitting”.
- You read this entire list and laughed at least twice.