Learning to LOVE Knitting

I started knitting over two years ago after I found out how much I liked spinning my own yarn. Well being the kind of person who has to stay busy it seemed like a pretty good thing to have needles in hand click clacking away knitting all the cool yarn I was spinning... So I decided to become a knitter . My first project a mountain colors baby hat pattern went relatively smoothly and I think I did a pretty darn good job. This project became a gift for a dear friends new baby's head. Hmm this knitting thing seems pretty cool. Next project SOCKS...

OMG SOcks.... SOCKS ARGHHHHHHHHH what a disaster. I spent the next year or two agonizing over Socks. Id get pretty far into one sock, BOred outta my gourd...round and round and round on tiny needles with tiny yarn...never falling in love, much less like with my sock project. I didn't give up though and in between all these attempts to knit 1 pair of socks I took to making scarves and hats, ipod cozies, gifts for loved ones, I-cord bracelets, washrags and more things for the head and little by little challenging myself to harder and harder projects like civil war era Sontags, and then lace and then Fair Isle all the while trying to finish just one pair of socks . I spun yarn with the most beautiful natural colored roving, I hand dyed my own yarns and rovings for inspiration, I bought beautiful sock yarns in luscious colors. I did anything and everything to keep me from boredom while impatiently knitting away at those socks. I made attempt after attempt to knit just 1 pair and all I have to show for are a box of lonely singles. However despite my struggle with sock knitting it has come to my attention that I have become so in love with all the other kinds of knitting out there that its ok that I still hate sock knitting. What I remember most about these past years is how much I would tell my friends HOw much I hated knitting and yet there I was knitting away anytime my hands were free. I cant say exactly what day it was I realized the LOve connection but I do know its was sometime close to knitting that Songtag and then even more when I found lace and then Fair isle. Maybe its the artist in me that required a project that had more detail . I look at my drawings and paintings and I see how I love doing anything that requires attention to detail . Lace and Fair Isle both require that constant eye to detail. Maybe as I grow in my skills Ill wake up one day and finally finish a mate to one of those unlucky singles in my sock box but until then Im having an affair with a lace shawl this week knit up in teals and blues and greens. I cant wait to wrap myself up in all its soft alpaca glory.