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March 6, 2012

Tangled Tuesday: Knitting Mo-Jo

March 6, 2012



I finally got my knitting mojo back!

For a while I thought I’d never pick up needles again.  I just didn’t feel like it and I was in a funk that wasn’t lifting any time soon.

Then cookie season swooped in and it’s hard to hawk cookies (which was cruelly extended to the end of the month.  If I see one more blankety blank Thin Mint — I’ll just eat it.  Let’s keep it real) and pay attention to dropped stitches.  I tried working on small things, like booties and squares, but nothing grabbed me.

The patterns I found were quick, but meh.

Nothing.

Pinterest whet my appetite but I still couldn’t find a frig to give about knitting.

Then I went to Macy’s.

Macy’s had the audacity to sell these:

for $32.00.  And the insane thing was that people were buying them!

Hold the phone…

My knitting is for relaxation, the occasional ball of yarn and a sincere thank you.  I knit to give people gifts, not to make money.  Plus, I never felt that my work was good enough to sell.

Then I went to art therapy.  In art therapy, there’s no right or wrong way to draw a picture.  Jane, the therapist, would find the most minute thing based on the colors used or the depth of a stroke.  I can draw a pig and something that resembles a cat, but stick people are my forte.  Regardless of what I drew, Jane found a way to explain the meaning or feeling, going especially gaga over this piece:

To me it’s a crayon drawing of confusion, my conflicting feelings as an African American woman who spends days shifting my personality,  feeling like a Peggy Olsen in a Joan Holloway world.*

The accolades  I received from the art projects regardless of mistakes and a lack of skill made me think, what the heck?  Let go, and have fun.

I began to knit because I wanted to quit smoking.  I continued to knit because it was fun.  I need to find the FUN in knitting again.

So I am.

The Harry Potter scarf has a new lease on life, and I’m enjoying the act and art of knitting.

*a post I’m working on about my mixed feelings being a woman in a man’s world.  We’ve come a long way, baby, but we have so much more strides to make.

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  1. Heather says

    March 7, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    Hi! Please email me when you can! HeatherVonsj(at)gmail.com

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  2. Felissa (two Little Cavaliers) says

    March 6, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    I don’t know how to sew or knit. But I love receiving hand knitted presents. Those glove(s) from Macy’s are really pretty and I might have to consider something like that for next winter  for when I am walking the dogs.

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  3. Kristen Jeffery says

    March 6, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    I am so not crafty.  Glad you are enjoying it!!!

    Reply
  4. Rhea Palmer says

    March 6, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    Knitting is my new little obsession. I was already a crochet addict. lol

    Reply
  5. Momma T says

    March 6, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    I don’t have any projects i’m working on but I did share this =) 

    Reply
  6. Dentistmel says

    March 6, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    I don’t have projects but after seeing this post, I am motivated!!

    Reply
  7. Heather - Acting Balanced Mom says

    March 6, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    no projects for me… although I’m seriously considering taking a decluttering challenge… my house needs a major going over soon…

    Reply

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