Thursday, June 21, 2012

The year of the Knit!

I haven't blogged yet in 2012... how unreliable am I?

Life just takes over and I'm left in a tale-spin.  That's a good way to put it... I go through the motions, work, volunteering, family activities, theatre rehearsals, and at the end of each thing, am left spinning.

I'm taking back a bit of my life in a sense this year.
Last fall when I started saying this was going to be the Year of the Knit, I was only partially serious... mostly kidding actually.  But, it has turned out to be largely true.  I've done almost no quilting or sewing, minimal paper crafting, no embroidering, and my book stack is growing, because when I have free minutes, or days, I'm knitting.  Well, knitting and doing laundry, scrubbing the shower, sorting mail-you get the idea.

It turns out I like knitting even more than I thought.  And, my skills are improving.  The whole practice makes perfect thing... we all want to pretend it's not true.  We know it probably is, and it's apparent in the lives of others, but we never really want to accept it for ourselves.

In my knitting, and just about every other aspect of life, as I grow-up, I realize just how much practice is takes to be any good at all.

What should next year be?  The Year of the Yoke--I'll only eat eggs? I like alliteration.  I could call this year the Year of the Yarn.

I'll have to look through my stashes, yes, stashes, and see what supplies need to be used up.  Another Year of the Yarn would not hurt anyone in my house.