Absolution, Remedial Knitting and New Traditions
Thank you so much for the absolution everyone. That dishcloth yarn is so hard on the hands that an 8″ square feels like some bizarre torture test. Instead, I put it aside for a few days while my arm recouperates.
I turned my attention, not to something exciting and new, but to a project that has been burning a hole in my psyche for some time. Purple Haze - the purple tweed sweater with the multicolored pompom yarn sleeves I finished about this time last year. This sweater defines remedial knitting (according to webster’s -> Intended to correct or improve deficient skills in a specific subject). The while my the problem wasn’t with my skills, per se, the problem was with the subject - the pattern was designed to be a pull over, with directions for only the back written up. When I went back to get the directions for the front, I was 6 weeks pregnant and hoping to breastfeed, which meant no pull overs for me in the next , oh two to three years. So we modified the pattern to make it a cardigan, but somehow, it didn’t hold up nearly as well as I imagined it in my mind.
As I wrote here earlier this fall, I ripped the front of the sweater back, put it in with my yarn stash and vowed to return to it. I started Sunday night and have been making small progress ever since. Small progress because it is boring, I’ve already knit this sweater once and it makes my arm hurt!! Is my body communicating what my brain can’t verbalize? Specifically, no gift knitting, no remedial knitting, just fun, new knitting projects now and forever?
(That reminds me of a story about President & Mrs. Coolidge -> “Learning that a cockerel could have sex dozens of times a day, Mrs. Coolidge said: “Please tell that to the president.” On being told, Mr. Coolidge asked, “Same hen every time?” “Oh, no, Mr. President. A different one each time.” The president continued: “Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge.”) I think the same goes for me with yarn.
I’m off of prepare for tomorrow’s feast. We’ve ditched tradition this year and are going with a menu of foods we are thankful for. Dinner will be Lobster & Squash Risotto with Roast Leg of Lamb and french green beans - dessert will be pumpkin cheesecake.
I hope you enjoy your traditions, new or old!
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Pumpkin cheesecake?! My favorite! Lobster?! My favorite! Hope you had a wonderful holiday!
The President Coolidge story is too cute. I’m still chuckling…thanks!
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