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Jun. 6th, 2011 08:48 amLearning to knit has turned out to be rather useful, actually.
It gives me something to do with my hands, something nice and soothing and totally repetitive that I can use as an excuse to not-look at something but don't have to focus on. And at the end of it I get the thrill of making something out of nothing, which is nice. (Well. Better than nice. I still get excited every time I look at my tiny washcloth.)
Most of all, though, I think learning to trust the yarn has been pretty important. Let me clarify, when I was starting to knit the washcloth, I pulled every loop as tight as I possibly could. I have some control issues, and I was worried that if I didn't pull the loops tight enough I'd end up with a very loosely woven piece that was going to fall apart immediately.
This resulted in yarn that was looped so tightly around my needles that I couldn't actually do anything with it. It was really difficult to move the yarn around and frustratingly annoying to knit.
So when I started work on the scarf I'm doing now, I tried to let the yarn do what it wanted to, as long as it wasn't actually hanging loose with great big loops. And it worked a lot better!
It gives me something to do with my hands, something nice and soothing and totally repetitive that I can use as an excuse to not-look at something but don't have to focus on. And at the end of it I get the thrill of making something out of nothing, which is nice. (Well. Better than nice. I still get excited every time I look at my tiny washcloth.)
Most of all, though, I think learning to trust the yarn has been pretty important. Let me clarify, when I was starting to knit the washcloth, I pulled every loop as tight as I possibly could. I have some control issues, and I was worried that if I didn't pull the loops tight enough I'd end up with a very loosely woven piece that was going to fall apart immediately.
This resulted in yarn that was looped so tightly around my needles that I couldn't actually do anything with it. It was really difficult to move the yarn around and frustratingly annoying to knit.
So when I started work on the scarf I'm doing now, I tried to let the yarn do what it wanted to, as long as it wasn't actually hanging loose with great big loops. And it worked a lot better!
