Frogging: the process of unraveling or ripping out a knitting project.
Of course yarn is tricky, it conspired against me. My spinning guild gave me a gorgeous sheland/angora blend as a baby shower gift. I spent months spinning it to a perfect lace-weight. I spent untold hours designing a lace sweater with a complex hand-drawn chart and top down pattern. I sat by my son's hospital bed knitting swatches during two different crisis.
Can you sense the sentimental background/amunition this yarn began to amass against me? My life changed with the advent of a son's illness. I no longer had the same amount of time, or quality of sleep; yet this project mocked me, depressed me, told me I had failed. Somehow I lost sight of the fact that knitting is a hobby, i.e. something I do because I enjoy it.
So last night I enlisted a callous hit team of two daughters to frog with me. Our training mission- an entrelac blanket of lesser emotional baggage.
Languid pose aside...
Look at that grim determination- or possibly boredom.
Today, the first day of the New Year, I will send my hit team, my frog team, after the lace sweater. Freedom will ring for the shetland/angora handspun yarn.
This year my finished projects may be fewer and simpler, but I will frog back to enjoyment to be Mistress of my yarn once again.
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I am crocheting as a hobby instead of task. I am crocheting a shawl for myself because I get cold in the evenings. I am using yarn that I've had forever, and I am not worrying about when the project will be finished. I am crocheting for the process and because it is fun to create something. BTW, have you seen the Selfish Seamstress blog?(http://selfishseamstress.wordpress.com/) Pretty funny stuff.
No I haven't seen that blog- I'll check it out.
So funny and true!!! I have this same problem - only with scrapbooking!!! At this point when I take pictures I feel stressed about them - I try to not take too many because the more I take the further behind I am!!!! I LOVED scrapbooking in the beginning but now it has become stressful to be behind. But I am learning to accept that I will have to take babysteps and be okay with that for now - all the pictures will eventualy get done and if they don't - I'll slip them into a normal album!
Happy Knitting!
Courtney
www.womenlivingwell.org
I get stressed just thinking about scrapbooking:)
I have years and years of photos from pre-digital days in shoe boxes. I just feel good that a good majority of them are labeled. Someday I plan to split them up and give them to my children. They can enjoy scrapbooking them, or put them in the back of their closets.
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