Well here we are again… a week into a new year. Looking over my knitting last year I managed to finish nothing. I had surgery in Nov of ’12 and was basically recovering from long term shoulder/neck pain. Recently The Flame asked what gave me a sense of satisfaction and helped me feel creative other than knitting in an effort to help me come up with something to do other than watch kids all day I guess. The other than was basically because, he noted, since he met me my knitting has fallen by the wayside slowly but surely every year until it finally was gone. In all honesty I couldn’t think of anything except for cooking, which I do daily, and think of as a chore. Well I enjoy it but most times it is a chore. So I have turned my eyes towards knitting again. In the past couple of weeks I have been tinkering here and there on a sweater and am feeling much more grounded and relaxed. I guess that whole adage of taking care of yourself first is true. I need to spend time on myself so that I can give to the family.
Speaking of family I am watching the adorable grandson {TAG} every day but not for much longer. It kinda makes me sad. We are expecting another grand and my lovely daughter plans on taking about 9 months to spend with the baby. By the time that passes TAG should be in preschool so I only have a few months with him.
In the spirit of New Year’s Resolutions I have been trying to come up with some knitting ones. I have a long standing history of failing my knitting NYR and haven’t made any in about a decade but who knows… maybe I have grown and can keep one or two. Other than tackling the many WIPs sitting around the house, which I haven’t even bothered to corral and count, I really was at a loss until last night. As I was pulling off my sock I noticed a almost hole near the ball of one foot…. that threadbare look. I suppose I could darn it but then I was gathering some freshly washed socks and noticed that two out of the three pairs were also looking sad and tattered. Looking over my Ravelry pages I see that the last time I knit a pair of socks for myself was Jan 2010~ 4 years! Worse I cannot find that particular pair of socks which makes the socks I was wearing yesterday, from ’09, my newest pair. And the 2 sad looking pairs pre-date my Ravelry days which means pre ’07. I do have a few pairs between then of course that are still holding up. If you can call I bothered to have darned {by a friend} a pair from ’08.
Thinking this over it kinda makes sense. I really never particularly cared for sock knitting and usually only knit one pair a year. Maybe two. I remember how excited I was to realize I had finally amassed 7 pairs of socks so needn’t knit anymore. Of course I did knit a few extra and replaced sad looking ones. I did darn one or two but even tho I had saved original yarn the socks had faded so much with washing that I quickly realized saving the yarn made no real sense and darning them even less. So yes I will be knitting a few pairs of socks for myself this year.
If I had a no buy, which I don’t despite the fact that I have an absurd amount of yarn and haven’t bought any for a few years, I would be safe. I have hundreds of skeins of sock yarn. I am not sure that I am exaggerating. I may photograph and upload onto ye olde Ravelry.
I will say I also noticed a hole in my Selbu Modern which I knit way back in ’09 as well. I really love the colors and yarn and everything about the hat and it is a fairly small hole. I was keeping my hand knits, in particular the ones I let my children wear, in wicker baskets and let me tell you right now that wicker snags on yarn. When I do find the original yarn for this, and I am sure I saved it because it was lovely and I had hoped to make some fingerless mitts such as Endpaper with it if I found more {discontinued Reynolds Whisky in 53 &103 should anybody be reading and have a spare partial or full ball to send my way}, I will repair my tam. It is only one stitch broken. I do dread weaving in ends and finding the broken end and such but the hat is glorious.
yarny days and knitterly evenings {again!}