I entered into a friendly challenge: learn to knit (from scratch) in 2014.
I was going to leave it until later in the year, but then a late night text message from my friend / challenge opponent ("I'm knitting!" said she!) nudged at some dormant competitive streak within my psyche. Oh yes, I thought. It is ON! I went out and got me some 4 mm needles and a ball of double knit that very next morning.
I never knew I could get so addicted. I have shown more perseverance in teaching myself to knit than with most of my past relationships. I have calmly unravelled bad row after bad row, and just cast those stitches back on again and again, never once feeling the bite of frustration or temptation to give up. After all this time I have found the thing to teach me patience, that most elusive of virtues!
Serendipitously, I stumbled across a beautiful local art project (Canopy) requiring knitted submissions by April. So I upped my game from 'knit one purl one', and have been knitting my first leaves to hang in the woods!
I'll update you on my progress throughout the year.
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