Affirmations for the Serious Knitter

 

As read on my knitting podcast for this week (at the 13:48 mark).

AFFIRMATIONS FOR THE SERIOUS KNITTER. 

1. No housework until I have knit for fifteen minutes. 

2.  I want to knit.  Worrying, complaining, computerizing, rushing, shopping, people-pleasing, (fill in the blank) is NOT knitting.

3.  "I should do this, I should do that."  I will stop "should-ing" all over myself, cast on, and knit. 

4.  I am an artist. (Repeat three thousand times daily, preferably while knitting.)

5.  As an artist, I won a palette of textures and colors, also known as a stash.  No one ever told Van Gogh he had too many colors of paint. I appreciate, treasure, deserve, and utilize every skein of yarn I own, even if it is just for inspiration. 

6.  In addition, I show gratitude for my abundance of yarn by finding another knitter to knit the yarn I know I will never use. 

7.  I am proud of my creativity. (see number 4) 

8.  My ability to create and complete knitting projects is a great gift.  I show my gratitude for this gift by completing projects, wearing them, and saying to all admirers, "I knit it myself!" And when I do, the angels rejoice, and knit with me. 

BingAI can't get knitting needles right yet.

9.  I want to knit sweaters (socks, baby things, afghans etc.) and I remind myself regularly how important knitting is to me.

10.  I'm gonna knit it, I'm gonna finish it, I'm gonna wear it -- with a smile! 

Before Podcast, Knitting

 

Mixing three thin yarns into one magnificent swatch?  Yes please!   Making Stephen West's Penguono jacket for ME.  And yes I will post progress reports.  

Podcast will be up shortly and yes, we are modifying our content to only bring up white male Republicans in the context of great women Democrats.  (Seriously.)  It makes a difference, you'll hear it on the show.  

Three Sweaters and One for Me

I took on knitting sweater for each of my three children this winter. None of them pure wool -- Junior Dude's needs to be machine dry-able, Middle Child is vegan down to her clothes, and for youngest child the cotton blend a podcast listener sent me was perfect.

Junior Dude's is top-down v-neck in a wool/acrylic blended yarn called CoffeeBeenz:

Middle Child's looks a little like chain mail. Perfect:

And Youngest Child's I added to my list as a challenge to get three done -- it's knit on size 11 needles in easy garter stitch. I started it last and finished it first:

Now on to a sweater for me in comparatively expensive merino slub yarn. Here's a swatch:

I'll keep you posted on the progress.

Win a lifetime supply of #yarn? Define, please.

Really, if you're having a contest to "win a lifetime supply of yarn" you have to define your terms.

What kind of yarn?

What's a lifetime?

How much yarn is enough?

Who am I kidding?

I would enter this contest no matter what.  If it's acrylic yarn, I would share it with my charity knitter friends, and all of us would make beautiful things for cancer patients and the newly widowed and also babies and African AIDS orphans, because That Is What We Do.  And no matter how "much" yarn it is, I am obviously a member of the SABLE club, (Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy) so no problemo on that front, either.

It turns out the contest winner will get one $480.00 gift certificate to one of the big online yarn stores each year for 20 years.

I can live with that.  :D