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Injured While Knitting
Thoughts on aging
I’ve always wanted to learn how to knit. I love warm, cozy hats and mittens. All those colors, all that texture. I wanted to learn how to make things out of yarn.
But it was only very recently that I finally got myself into the craft. I tried a few projects at the very beginning of lockdown in 2020, but after producing roughly 47 strangely lumpy square “blankets,” I kind of dropped the whole thing.
Until about 3 months ago, when I decided to knit up all of the yarn that I’d left sitting in a basket, watching me with disapproving woolen eyes. I couldn’t just ignore them, and I knew I needed to at least knit a few simple projects to use that stuff up. So I reached out to a few knitting goddess friends and got the sage advice to “look on YouTube.” I took that advice, and I went to YouTube.
There I found videos that showed me, in simple steps, how to cast on, bind off, knit, purl, knit from the back, read a pattern, fix a dropped stitch and make adorable but simple teddy bears.
And I got hooked. Addicted. Completely swept up. I not only knit through the yarn that was left, but I have also since added about 75 new skeins of yarn, 40 new needles, and 100 little stitch markers.
