Limbo

My yarn is talking to me.  I swear it is. "Knit with me, knit with me" it chants.  Only I can't figure out what to knit with any of it!  Crazy, right?!? Normally I have about a gazillion projects I want to knit and not enough time, yarn, or hands to knit them.  I don't know what's wrong with me.  Maybe I should check my temperature.  Okay, I confess that I do know what the problem is.  The problem is that I feel right now like I'm in limbo.  I have a pattern being test knit, but I might need to knit a modified version of this pattern and I want to be prepared to knit this modified pattern.  What if I tie up the needles that I need to knit?  What yarn would I use?  What if I commit the yarn I want to use to another project and then have to find other yarn!  Mr. SpiderKate tried to help me out of this quandary.  The conversation went something like this:

Me: I don't know what to knit right now.

Mr. SpiderKate: What's the problem?

Me: I might need to knit a modified pattern of the pattern I'm having test knit right now.

Mr. SpiderKate: Well, how long will it take you to knit that pattern?

Me: Not very long, I think easily less than a week.

Mr. SpiderKate: Okay, well will you have enough notice? Is it even decided yet if you need to knit this modified pattern?

Me: Well, it's not decided yet and yeah I'll have enough time.

Mr. SpiderKate: So, what's the problem?

Me: I don't even know what yarn I'll use for the pattern.  I need to go to the yarn store tomorrow.

Mr. SpiderKate: You need to go to the yarn store to pick out yarn for a pattern you don't even know if you need to knit yet?

Me: Finally, you get it!

And that sums up my problem.  I need to go to the yarn store to pick out yarn for a pattern I don't even know if I need to knit yet.  If only life were always this simple.