My mind is a busy place, there are lots of half formed thoughts flying around in there. Three children and all they entail, a household to run and a job I love, but which sometimes leaves me a little emotionally spent with the intensity it can involve, these are the things I carry in my head, and sometimes it is cluttered in there.
John has been urging me for years to mediate, to quiet my mind somewhere to help it cope with it's load, but it has never really done it for me. I am too antsy, possibly impulsive and generally highly resistant to suggestion.
But unexpectedly, knitting is helping me to find my center, on a particularly busy or stressful day I find myself jonesing for some time with my needles. There is meditative and soothing rhythm in the clicking of those needles and I am hooked.
I knit every where these days, on the sidelines of swimming lessons and ballet classes. Late at night when everyone is finally asleep and everything done and I really should be sleeping, but I am not.
I am slow, I don't have a particularly good technique, I am a little embarrassed of knitting in public and 'doing it wrong" but I am learning not to care about that. I spend time browsing Ravelry, looking at things I would love to make, and then feeling despondent as I read the information and I can not decipher it at all. But then I remember that a few months ago I could barley read a pattern and this year I have made three cardigans.
All the same pattern, the latest thing I made was a little pink Kina for a good friends baby girl. I made with some Debbie Bliss cashmerino yarn, a thing of beauty. There are some mistakes in it, but not as many as the first one I made. I am improving. Admitedly though I am a little stuck on the Kina, I need to branch out, but am afraid, does anyone have any suggestions for what to make next for a beginner?
There is such a sense of satisfaction hand making a present for someone. I can't wait for it to arrive and to see it on the intended wearer.
Linking up with Leonie
3 comments:
Lovely knitting. I wish I had something like that to keep my hands busy at all of the boys' sporting things. Never quite got around to knitting though.
What a gorgeous finished little kina. visiting you from show and tell
It's a lovely wee cardi and I'm sure they will love it :) I think there are many of us that find calm and stillness in keeping our hands busy with knitting, crocheting or sewing... very soothing for my mind and soul at least!
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