Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas!

I hope you are all spending it the same way I am. That is, at home in your pajama bottoms with nothing compelling you to go outside. Other celebratory details optional.

It's been quite the year for me on many fronts, but it's been eventful in terms of knitting, too. I was inspired to pick up the needles again about year and a half ago by the guy I was dating at the time. (I told him if he picked out the yarn I'd knit him a pair of socks.) What had been a pleasant hobby in college quickly grew into a consuming passion--especially when I got onto Ravelry.

Now, I'm living in a new place, pursuing a different career, dating a different fellow, and have actually published knitting patterns that people want to knit. Seems kind of crazy, but there you have it.

I have lots of thoughts on how knitting builds community and can make life more fulfilling and blah blah blah, but you know what? In lieu of a boring meta-post, I'm going to go knit.

Merry Christmas.

This Married to the Sea cartoon is for Jane. She knows why.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Haha!

"Do you more fully understand my powers now, Eugene?"

Also, I meant to email you about something. You need to knit A. a new hat. The big fatty has outgrown his old umbilical one, which makes me sad because it was so cute.

Now he has some lame hate that has a pooch at the top, and I have to refrain from calling him "condom head" every time I see it. This description, while accurate, is not the sort of phrase to teach a 18 month old.

We need a new hat, statim, before I get myself into trouble!

Love,

Jane

Ily said...

I want to hear about how knitting builds community! Buuut that's just me ;-)