Hey all,
Well, last night was almost another catastrophe. Sans feline, this time. Yeah...it was just me, baby!! Aaaalllllll meeeeee! I tried winding up the Silk lace weight from Sundara last night and right in the middle I somehow created this UBER KNOT FROM HELL!! Ever tried pulling apart a tiny little knot in laceweight yarn??? It nearly killed me...
Kev was helping me out by acting as my human swift during the incident and had a fabulous time listening to me rant. I got so mad about it that it was hard to focus on my usual mantra when untangling things (yes, I've developed a mantra for the situation if that's any indication of how often this happens...). I usually sit there and chant "It's never as bad as it seems...it's never as bad as it seems..." when I end up knotty. Last night though, I was so terrified that I had ruined this beautiful ($65) skein of silk for his grandmother's shawl that I suddenly let fly with a tangent that had him laughing so hard at me that he could barely keep the unwound portion on his hands. I was blaming everyone from the silk worms for showing off their talents to the human race, to the chick who did my nails a week ago and let them keep growing, thus preventing me from untangling effectively. Yeah, it was pretty immature...but yesterday was an off day for me, so for some reason that made it alright for me to blame everyone except the actual culprit...my own clumsy self.
Eventually, I came to the conclusion in my deleriousness that this was all part my training in the Zen of
Knitting. I (while untangling my yarn) relayed to Kev my theory that this was part of an endurance test of sorts for knitters. I told him that any minute now, I was going to reach some sort of epiphany like in Karate Kid or Kill Bill. This was just one of the lessons, you see.
You know how in the movies the main character is getting the crap kicked out of them by their Zen Master while in training (in my case, the skein of silk) and the feat they are trying to accomplish seems impossible. You think they just can't take any more of a beating when all of a sudden they "get it" and either chop through the stack of bricks with their hand or conquer their Zen Master with the the Fatal Five-Point-Palm Exploding Heart technique? This, I told Kev, was what this knot was really all about. Yeah, it was a pretty zany rant.
At any rate, yarn has been saved yet again and I can resume the comedy of errors that is my knitting life. Kev?...well, when I exploded in a childish moment of frustration and asked him exactly what the hell it was that I liked so much about knitting that I would go through with that sort of struggle simply smiled at me patiently and shrugged. "Cause you're good at it and you have fun with it. Besides...think of all that yarn you would miss out on if you quit." It was somewhere shortly after that the knot disappeared. Damn, I think he's onto the secret Zen of Knitting. My guess is that he's been sneaking off to the library when I'm not looking and reading up on Elizabeth Zimmerman, Kaffe Facette and the like. Do you think he's like a knitting ninja or something? That might require some investigation... I'll let you know what I find out!
Anyways, as promised here is a sneak peek at my sketches for one of the characters of Bitchin' Stitches. Everyone, meet Morgan.
Happy Friday everyone! And stay tuned! Later tonight I'll be posting up the winners of the contest!!
All good things,
Stealth Ninja Morrighana
All good things,
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