19 Things You'll Only Understand If You're Slightly Obsessed With Knitting

    You could go out and socialise, but you'll just be waiting until you can go home and knit again.

    1. Your brain screensaver is just knitting.

    2. When you're feeling a bit stressed nothing relaxes you like knitting.

    3. All day at work you just can't wait to go home again so you can carry on knitting.

    4. Whenever you're wearing one of your creations you tell literally everyone you see that you knitted it.

    5. Wool shops are your happy place.

    6. You definitely have a wool wish list.

    7. And you always end up buying wool without quite knowing what you're going to do with it.

    8. It really annoys you that it's much more expensive to knit your own things instead of just buying them from a shop like sane people do.

    9. Your bank balance suffers from your cashmere blend and wooden needle habit.

    10. Every holiday and birthday gives you the perfect excuse to get knitting.

    11. You probably started your Christmas knitting weeks ago.

    12. You've forced your knitted creations on literally everyone you know.

    13. Dropping a stitch hurts you emotionally.

    14. Even though you know it's a terrible idea you always try to avoid balling up the yarn.

    15. You've definitely fallen down a knitting YouTube tutorial hole before.

    16. As soon as you've mastered one skill you're desperate to start learning the next one.

    17. There are some things you're not sure you're ever going to be able to learn to do.

    18. When you get new inspiration the temptation to give up on your current project is huge.

    19. But there is no satisfaction like finally finishing a project.