The relaxation knitting brings.....?

Does anyone else do guilty knitting?

Boy, I do.

It comes in all sorts of forms.

There is the stuff you grab up and work on because you see the unfinished project in the stash/closet and you really intended to have that made for yourself long before now.

If you had finished it you could have worn it last month during the horrible cold, but you had packed it up because it never gets that cold this far south. If you had finished it you would have gotten high praise at the last meeting with all the newbies. But nooo you laid it aside and left it on the shelf and never once thought about touching it until now.

There is the guilty knitting you do when you realize that the baby you started that blanket for is now here and you have only just done about a (fill in the blank) (half, a third, just barely cast it on.

There is the guilty knitting you do when you are racing to finish a project because you have fogged it 92 times and are still not satisfied with the results and you suddenly realize that you HAVE to give them SOMETHING and the results will only matter to you because you are the only one who ever knew that you considered an Irish Cable throw and then couldn’t do a decent cable to save you little round rump and now after six tries the darn thing has be to gift wrapped and on the table at the wedding in less than a week.

There is guilty knitting you do when you own child complains that you’re always making things for other folks. So you snatch up some yarn you had bought for him and after a frantic rush you produce a tried and true hoody that the little schmuck takes one look at and says that’s a baby pattern isn’t it? Why did you knit me a baby sweater?

There is the knitting that you do in the heat of summer and right after the holidays because you want to get a leg up on the community service projects for the group and while you would rather be doing socks for yourself you know that you had better get busy on this so the total for the year won’t look like a giant goose’s egg.

Then there is the true guilt. It’s those projects that you started long ago. You had seriously planned to surprise the recipient with a wonderful item that was exactly what they wanted… had even asked specifically for right down to the weight and color.

Then something happens. They go into a retirement home or the hospital. You change jobs and don’t see them. You or they get a divorce or remarried. Whatever the reason you go for long stretches without seeing them and in back of you mind you think that it would have been nice, but now…. There they are! They are back in your circle/life and you wish to goodness you had just kept the darn project on the burner. You try to recall where you put the thing and did you use the yarn for something else and …..

Yes, knitting is soooo relaxing.