Wild Hair Knitter

As explained so beautifully by Piggy, some folks are Pre-Process knitters. I can add nothing more to this except to say that I see Pre-process tendencies in myself:

• I have been collecting patterns since the mid-80's.
• I think about a project for weeks or months before I actually cast on.
• I have recently begun to make "Pre-Process notes" on my rav projects page.

If you will indulge me, I would like to propose another category: The Wild-Hair Knitter* (although I may be the only one.)

• First and foremost, a WHK is impulsive. I know I have squillions of impulse skeins in my stash. Just lone little skeins and  have no stinkin' idea why I bought them (I suspect it's because hitting the yarn store is my equivalent of hitting the bar after a tough day at work...guess that makes these little skeins "yarn shots".)
• The WHK has no intention to start a new project when, as they wander around ravelry, they are overcome with the urge to make a an apple cozy or a sweater for purse size tissue packages or any number of patterns they have no use for.
• The WHK may have items in their ravelry queue, but none of them ever seem to end up as FO's on their project page (probably because they are distracted by knitted engagement rings.) My queue is useless, really. For me, putting a pattern in the queue is like giving it the death penalty.
• The WHK has at least 4 FO's with no recipient in mind. I can't be bothered with figuring out to whom to give a project. I'd never make anything if I waited for my friends to get pregnant and have babies. Thank heaven for charities!
• And finally, the WHK has commitment issues. I love the courtship: finding the pattern, considering which yarn to use and looking over other finished projects on ravelry, but the minute I cast on my project, I begin to hate it.

*As I was writing this post (over the course of a month) Mooncalf had a post that made me think she has a bit o' the WHK gene as well. The first three lines could be from my autobiography.