Saturday, January 31, 2009

Kneatly Knitting on a Saturday Knight

Something's happening!  I'm thinking about knitting...alot!  I've given up waiting for the perfect moment to get creative and decided to just do it.  In the middle of the living room.  With my kids running around and husband listening to NPR.  And it's working!   I'm unbelievably slow but taking pleasure in watching my neat little rows form.   Never mind that I showed Clay my "work" and he commented, "Wow, are there supposed to be all those holes?"  

Admittedly I'm already starting to get a little bored with a simple knit stitch and eager to learn how to pearl, want to try out different yarns, ready for the next step.  A real challenge now is to force myself to continue with my current progress, to get a good handle on how to do this one thing before tackling the next.  I imagine this may be an important part of any creative skill training - mastery of one skill before undertaking a new one.  I still think it's going to take me 10 years to actually come up with a scarf, and an ugly pink one at that (I really hate what I'm working with now).  Still, I'm enjoying the process.  It's nice to have something actively creative to do when I don't want to face my school work, house work, etc.  

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