I just want to finish everything at once again knitting and am a little project crazed. I need it anyway always colorful and versatile, so I work best. Very far ahead on my needles are currently the spring waffle cloth for Sandra and the baby blanket, whose name I will tell you when the new citizen is there, which may happen very soon.

The baby blanket is knitted in different steps garter stitch. It will be brightly colored, which splits the taste buds. Just for fun, I calculated how many stitches I "must" knit for this blanket. I came up with a staggering 42'404 stitches. Depending on how I will knit around the corners, it will be about a hundred more. That no longer falls into the weight.

I primarily get to knit in the evenings when the kids are asleep and nothing else is planned. In between, however, there is always room for a row. While waiting at the ballet school. Or after lunch. You know how it is, if you really think about it, you can integrate knitting into your everyday life quickly and easily. A few less times on Facebook and you've already knitted one more row.

When I have time pressure for certain projects - like right now - I divide them into days. For the spring waffle shawl, I calculate one skein per day. I manage that well in addition to working on the book and my other projects, because the pattern knits up wonderfully quickly. For the baby blanket I plan 5,000 stitches a day.

Nah, I'm kidding, of course I don't really count the stitches. Since I knit the blanket in strips, I take five strips of 10 rows each day and hope that the baby still well-behaved lingers a little in the cozy cave.

So I divide the projects according to the number of columns to be knitted or according to pattern sequences. You could also calculate in gram increments.

Are you also sometimes so fond of planning? Do you sometimes have time pressure for certain projects? How do you do it?