Hey Guys!
First, let me apologize for an excessive absence from the knit-blogging world. Truth is, I really
miss blogging and I think about it a lot. There are so many things I want to share with you guys and I'm sure you can relate when I say that I'll come across something and often think, "this would make a great blog post" or, "I gotta show this to the blog"...
Alas, lately my new (now new-ish) job has me cah-razy busy every day which, as much as I enjoy it, doesn't leave me with much energy to sit down and blog to you guys. I hope you can forgive this.
At any rate, I borrowed from the Yarn Harlot in the post title today and I realize that for her usually, Tuesdays are for spinning, but for me...it's knitting. Just Tuesdays, you say? Nah, not just Tuesdays. Rather, for the past few months Tuesdays have been special knitting days for me.
About the time I was laid off from my previous job (back in November) I had lots of free time when I wasn't job hunting. I got back in touch with and began chatting more with a couple of friends I'd known for a number of years here in town. Both of these ladies were people that I knew of more than I could say that I knew well. That is, they were ladies that I wanted to get to know better, but as previously mentioned, I'm pretty shy and at times I can be hard pressed to buck up and just go over and start chatting. (If you listen hard, you can probably hear them laughing at me right now because now they can't get me to shut up when we see each other now).
Through various discussion over the years, I knew that they knit or crocheted as well, but well, shyness always prevented me from ever engaging much further than that. You would think I'd be over this at my age...
Isn't it funny then, that life just kinda happens.
During my time off, the three of us found each other on Ravelry, then through each other's blogs, and we just fell into step with one another. We started casually meeting, always on Tuesdays it seemed, to sit and drink coffee or tea, to talk and partake of the fibre arts in whatever form we felt was appropriate. I started to get to know them better. It felt right. I didn't feel shy anymore. A lot just kind of naturally fell into place with these two smart, funny, talented women. And dudes, I got so much more done on my projects than I did on my own.
So now, Tuesdays are for knitting. We've been meeting religiously every week (with a couple of exceptions that either involved someone sick or a necessary obligation that prevented us from meeting). We even have a South Western Ontario yarn crawl in the works once the weather is better.
It feels good to laugh with other women. Something I've felt deprived of for a long time, actually it's something I think I've deprived myself of...I'm a little funny like that. :)
I've tried a few times in the past to get involved with the local knitters guild, I've gone to events with fellow knit bloggers in other cities which I have enjoyed a lot, but I've never had my own local group to knit with. Not one that I didn't feel nervous about what people thought of me, or of my knitting...like I said, I'm funny like that.
This isn't just a thing to have, it's not a material thing for me. For me it's about being with good friends, each with a common interest in something like knitting. It's naturally flowing conversation where I feel free to be myself and feel in the loop, so to speak. See that photo in the top right of this post? It was taken during one of our Tuesday meets by one of the above mentioned ladies for one of her Ravelry projects. I like that photo a lot. I like it because when I look at it, I think about how much I look forward to our Tuesday knit n' gab sessions.
I'm learning to overcome my shyness, I'm learning the art of conversation, and I don't think I've ever heard the word VAGINA more than I do in our conversations. Ha ha! (Come now, two of the three of us have kids, we're all women, we have knitting and we have coffee. You would expect it to come up at SOME point in the conversation with an equation like that :P )
At any rate, I just wanted to say thanks to those two fantastic women who know who they are, and who I appreciate more than they know for being who they are.
Now, I just have to find a way to get all my knit blogging friends to join us, and life would be perfect. *wink*
Some FO's to come later this week, and even some *gasp* dare I say it? Crocheting! *titter titter*
All good things,
Morrighana
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