There are no small knitters, only small projects
My name is Diana, and I knit small projects. Why is that so hard to say? I love knitting and like what I knit, but I want to believe there is an amazing sweater or 2 or 3 inside me just waiting for the right time to fly off the needles.
When I look at my friend’s Ravelry pages or talk to my daughter-who-I-taught-to-knit, I can’t believe some of the amazing things they have knitted…big things like sweaters and even…gasp…that beautiful Tree of Life Afghan by Nicky Epstein and free from Lion Brand yarns. I have knitted a sweater and 1 sweater sleeve (yes, only the sleeve) and then there was that felted bag that was actually as big as a sweater before I washed it down to size. But for the most part, I like projects I know I can finish at some point in the foreseeable future; and I have decided to accept the fact that, at least for now, I am a small project knitter and I love it.
I love starting new projects. Knitting small things lets me start more projects and that is fun. I love yarn (don’t we all). Knitting small projects allows me to work with a lot more types of yarn. I love finishing projects, possibly more than starting them, and again, small projects let me have that satisfaction more often than a larger project would.
I also feel knitting small projects makes me a good friend to the sweater knitters. They can assume an air of superiority over my small scarves or knitted cupcakes. They can chose function over frivolous knitting and I will forever be in awe of their talent. Maybe I will knit them a Venus de Merino for Christmas.
You may be asking (or maybe you know) what or who is the Venus de Merino?
She is a wonderful knitted fertility goddess. Perhaps she will make my yarn multiply! She is designed and sold by darktwist.com. I will have to save her for after Christmas, as I am getting ready to knit some cupcakes using the pattern by Little Cotton Rabbits. I am thinking they will make cute pincushions.
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