Because I love the cheeriness and love of Valentine's Day, I decided to write a special post on the ways that I am absolutely in love with knitting.
1. Knitting never yells at you when you do something stupid.
Instead, knitting just sits there and let you finish. Then it will let you know that you goofed up by not fitting properly. But it never judges you or make you do something silly like excess paperwork that doesn't mean anything or an extra reading assignment when other people were the ones who didn't do the work in the first place.
2. Knitting is as easy or as hard as you make it.
There are some days when you just don't have much of a brain left at the end of the day. You don't want to sit down to an overly complicated lace pattern in cobweb weight yarn, but a simple ribbed sock will suit you just fine. Or an endless garter stitch scarf. Then there are some days when you want the overly complicated cabled scarf with different colored cables over a different color boarder that you have to do with the intarsia technique. And you love the fiddly complicatedness of it.
3. Knitting looks good in bright colors or in neutral colors.
It is pretty hard to make a bad looking project with wild colors if you let the colors shine and stand out by themselves. You can also make awesome and intricate patterns with neutrals that don't let those colors be boring. I guess, the thing is that color makes people happy and knit fabric looks good in any color.
4. Cables are awesome.
Knitting cables is still super impressive to me because it is so simple, but it looks so complicated. It is the best knitting illusion ever. You knit two or more stitches out of order every six to seven rows and it ends up looking like a rope. Dead simple and they look amazing all of the time.
5. Knitting is rhythmic and soothing.
Sometimes when I am upset or just can't relax, I grab my knitting. The movement of endless knits and purls is just so soothing to me. You just knit one stitch at a time and then when you are done knitting for the day you either have a practical item to wear, a fun item to display, or have made good progress on whatever you are making that day. But the feel of the yarn running through your fingers as you wrap it around your needles is a comforting feeling similar to hugging a teddy bear or cuddling up with a nice warm blanket. Or at least it is for me.
Happy Valentine's Day
-MegWesley
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