Good morning
Its a rainy morning. Most things around town have been canceled. I know I have to go to work later but right now I just want to think about yarn and knitting and curling up on the sofa on this rainy Saturday where people are stripping the shelves of stores and losing their minds.
In January I had hip surgery to repair a torn labrum in my right hip. The enforced downtime renewed my passion for knitting. I have always had a need, a drive, to make things with my hands. It often goes unsatisfied between work and the busyness of kids but its always been there. But for almost two weeks I had so much time and I started to finish old projects that had been sitting around for years and new projects and test knits and I found new indie yarn dyers and connected with the community of yarnpond and the drive a need to create was fed and grew. I find myself queueing more patterns than I can possibly finish, purchasing new patterns from independent designers and ordering yarn surprise boxes, like the Harry Potter boxes from Crystalskye's Handed or the Sock Crate from Southern Skeins.
Its a rainy morning. Most things around town have been canceled. I know I have to go to work later but right now I just want to think about yarn and knitting and curling up on the sofa on this rainy Saturday where people are stripping the shelves of stores and losing their minds.
In January I had hip surgery to repair a torn labrum in my right hip. The enforced downtime renewed my passion for knitting. I have always had a need, a drive, to make things with my hands. It often goes unsatisfied between work and the busyness of kids but its always been there. But for almost two weeks I had so much time and I started to finish old projects that had been sitting around for years and new projects and test knits and I found new indie yarn dyers and connected with the community of yarnpond and the drive a need to create was fed and grew. I find myself queueing more patterns than I can possibly finish, purchasing new patterns from independent designers and ordering yarn surprise boxes, like the Harry Potter boxes from Crystalskye's Handed or the Sock Crate from Southern Skeins.
Last night I blocked Kaskad for my daughter
and today I am casting on Little Rollick for my son.
I am happy to have ignited a love of handmade in both of them. I involve them in yarn choices and patterns choices, they ask about progress and are excited to try on finished products. Each of them has a ridiculous number of hats now. One of my favorite projects from last fall was the amazing Borealis Beanie written by a friend of mine.
Who knows, maybe I'll even get back into writing here regularly. I have a few friends who have recently started writing long snail mail letters again and its been wonderful to receive those in the mail and to sit and write back long rambling thoughts, like conversations we used to have.
If you are out there, if you see this, just drop a quick hello.
till next time,
Somer
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