"You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit."
That's a line from The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. I am currently in the middle of this excellent book. If you can't knit, it's still a great read. If you can knit, you'll love the knitting and the yarn shop settings.
That is pretty much how I started knitting. I was wallowing in my depression, and then suddenly, I was sitting there trying to learn how to knit. I graduated nursing school, and as happy as I was to be out, I couldn't remember who I was when I wasn't a nursing student. I had just lost my darling cat during finals - a grief that still finds me in the middle of the night and leaves me crying into my pillow. I was lost, lost, lost, and then knitting found me again.
I am not an excellent knitter. Probably not even a good one, in fact. I am slow. I haven't one finished object to show for the year of 2007, and we are well into March. It doesn't really seem to matter. I am still a knitter, finished object or not.
For me, knitting is about the process: trying new stitches, the yarn, choosing a pattern, etc. FO's are nice, but I get more excited watching a cable appear in my fabric, and knowing that I did it, and it's not as hard as it looks.
ReplyDeleteI finally started up again. I didn't realize how much I missed it. Well, yeah, I did.
W. :)
I never could knit. I've tried, but it's like a lot of things. I lose interest in about two minutes, and my mind starts wandering. I'm so glad you love it though.
ReplyDeleteI lost my cat George in 2000, and still cry over it sometimes.
ReplyDeleteAnd, your house??? Beautiful!!! So, so beautiful!
Grief for a pet is the worst.
ReplyDeleteI'm still a knitter, even though I haven't touched needles or yarn for I don't know how many months! I taught myself to knit 6 years ago, and it's a hobby that ebbs and swells. A couple of my friends are having babies soon, maybe that'll get me knitting again!