Years ago when I worked for the County I knitted in staff meetings to avoid strangling my co-workers. I know. I had knitting needles in my hands, but my hands were kept busy, which is how I avoided wrapping them around the throats around me. (I'm on medication now. Don't worry.)
So, in those meetings I made most of a sweater from some lovely brown tweed Phildar Superwash wool. But eventually the project got set aside and forgotten. Last year, in the process of packing and moving, I "unknitted" all the yarn and started another project with it, but it just wasn't happening for me. Since this project has been toward the top of the overall UFO pile, it's been on my mind lately. Last night at dinner I was telling my sister knitter, Laurel, about it and she, the goddesses bless her, expressed a desire to have the yarn for her very own. Yippee!! This morning I happily boxed up the whole thing and will take the yarn to her this weekend.
In this case I have to admit that the value of the project was in the process, not in the end result. I got my money's worth out of that yarn sitting knitting away in those meetings. Been there, done that. Let it go and move on. I've honestly never had this experience before, that is, the experience of knowing in my heart that the value of the thing was in the process, not in the product, and that it was okay -- good even -- to let the thing go and move on to something else that really interests and excites me right now. Wow.
Not to mention that giving the yarn away gets yet one more UFO out of my studio.
Life is good.
2 comments:
Besides another UFO, you also get rid off any icky vibes that got knit, tangled, or otherwise enmeshed in that yarn. Since Laurel wasn't a part of the meetings, and never felt the urge, possibly even need (I've been in those kinds of meeting, and sometimes it really does feel like a need.) to throttle other attendees, it won't bother her a bit. Congratulations!
Good point, Georg. Thank you.
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