There is a lot of knitting between Friday and Monday

You know how Friday I said I was going to sew? And work on things I already had ongoing? I lied. Except for the part about lever knitting. I have not been able to progress at all on that.

I think that is why, after the doors were delivered on Friday, I just could not sit down to work on what I already have on the needles. I just needed something simpler, easier, just something I didn't have to think about. Usually that would be socks, but I did not feel like socks.

So I delved into the stash and came up with a nice yarn to knit another BSJ with. Now that I understand the basics of knitting one, its easy to know exactly what to look for on those pesky corner turns. Its easy to see where my decreases and increases may have taken a flight of fancy and gone off that center stitch and with the knowing what to look for, I have only had to pull back twice so far. Once on the decrease portion and just this morning on the increase portion. This is relief knitting pure and simple. And it is pretty too. The multi colour yarn is a discontinued yarn called Rozetti Always Surprise. It is a 75 % acrylic 25 % wool blend, but it is really really nice. You can't help but feel the difference between it and the green edging yarn, a Mission Falls 1824 Wool, but it isn't at all like knitting plastic. It is just a good solid yarn for a kid. Its a reasonable match for the Mission Falls in its wearability. Bottom line, I fell for the pretty of this yarn. Peach, gold, pale gray blue, soft green. Seriously who wouldn't. I may just have to knit a blanket too just to see how this interesting little yarn looks in stockinette.

Some days a person just want to run and hide, even from your knitting. If it is just knitting we were talking about, it would be possible. Not so with real life. It's easy to get caught up in the day to day stresses that come and go in our lives. Sometimes big things come up and we'd really just like to scream, but we can't. It can feel lonely and dark and cold and sometimes it feels like there will never be a way out.

These days, when I know that someone is in need, I tell them I could teach them to knit. I know that most of the people I say this to are not going to take me up on it, but it does make them smile. Smiling helps, laughter helps, and when I talk knitting with non knitting friends, it usually get silly very fast. I have no problem with my knitting being the butt of jokes if it makes them feel better, even if it is just for a moment.

But I wish they would knit. Knit knit, purl purl, rip back, knit more. It's comforting and forgiving and everybody needs a little of that in their day.