Sisyphean Knitting
We've entered the era where crafting of almost every sort is very difficult, because my son is one year old and he wants to get into every single thing. My kids -- and surely this isn't unique to them -- are fascinated by yarn, and unraveling the yarn, and knitting needles, and grabbing the needles and running around while holding them.
My eldest is four and she still has these impulses, but she can restrain herself to some degree, but I still sometimes catch her at it. When she was one to more than two I basically could not knit at all, and her brother is just as bad or even worse, but he's also often occupied (by his older sister). So I'm able to knit a bit, but most projects are languishing. There are like a dozen projects.
When I started this blog I assumed I'd mostly be talking about my knitting because I spent so much time knitting, but it hasn't really worked out!
I'm also reaching a point where I am getting frustrated with my ability (or lack thereof), which I think is something that happens as you improve. Even though I have written about how I don't think I ought to care about being bad at stuff, it's harder to keep that in mind when I'm supposed to wear the shirt or the sweater. It really started getting to me when I became solidly intermediate, and many mistakes I could hardly see before became so obvious and it really felt as though I should have avoided making them in the first place.
I make sure not to expect perfection, because I'm not good enough for that and I'll always be doing and redoing my work and I'll never finish any pieces. But at the same time I want to make clothes I'll actually wear (or put on my children), so I need to practice more, which I can't do, because I have a baby. Maybe I'll just stick to socks.
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