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May 15, 2005

Back in the Groove

Even though it had been a long day, and even though reclining on the couch in a vegetable-like manner was awfully tempting, I forced myself to resume knitting on the Fanasaeter baby sweater last night.

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This is the second of two sleeves, and I'll likely finish it today. Then the real "fun" begins - the pattern calls for chain-stitch embroidery around all of the snowflakes motifs. Plus casting on the buttonband, assembling the pieces together - the kind of work that if done poorly will ruin all your beautiful straight knitting efforts.

No one was in the family room when I started knitting, so I called up my DVR menu of previously recorded programs and was reminded that I had recorded "Young Frankenstein" a few weeks ago. This movie was the "Napoleon Dynamite" of my generation (though not nearly so innocent); everyone over the age of 13 in the 1970's could quote at length from the movie.

I spent some time reflecting on my long knitting drought of the past couple of months. I came to a couple of conclusions:

  • The quality of the knitting experience suffers when it's a project not of your choice. My sister-in-law picked out this sweater pattern, and although she has great taste, it's not what I would have chosen as a knitting experience.
  • Similarly, bad yarn detracts from the experience. (Yes, I'm a yarn snob!) The yarn I'm using for those striped socks really bugs me. I don't like the feel of it, and I'm not crazy about the colors either. I bought several skeins of this stuff and I now intend to unload all of it on eBay. I think I've become a Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock Yarn fanatic.
  • Once these two projects are wrapped up I'm going to go for something totally FUN and INSPIRING! I'm thinking a Peace Fleece pullover of some kind. In fact, I'm going to head over to their web site right now!
  • Finally, part of the problem has been just plain laziness, I think. It dawned on me last night that sitting on the couch like a vegetable is not really a stress-reducing activity - it's not! It just puts your mind in neutral and nothing happens. Add knitting, however, and it seems to me that you are actively knitting your stress away. I've been thinking lately "I'm too tired and stressed out to knit" - well, the only way to make that feeling go away is to KNIT!

    Posted by karen at May 15, 2005 08:38 AM

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