Nine things I know to be true.
Friday, May 25, 2012 at 10:44AM 1. There is no such thing as too much yarn. Only not enough time. Perhaps someone needs to make this as one of those trendy subway signs and sell them on etsy. If you do, let me know. I know a few people who'd like to have one.
2. It's time to stop knitting faces into sweaters.
Repeat after me: NO.
3. Starting too many projects is a great way to never finish anything. Then you just end up with a house full of works-in-progress (WIPs) that you look at and feel guilty about. The guilt makes you avoid knitting altogether, and then nothing ever happens with the projects.
You crave a fix, so you get more yarn and needles and start something, which is exciting, but contributes to the vicious cycle of WIP-itis. If you have more than three WIPs, make a decision: finish one of them, or rip it out and make a commitment to no longer work on that project.
If this is you, GET OFF THE WIP train.
4. Cookies are quite possibly the world's most perfect food.
Also, parmesan cheese.
But the parmesan is unrelated to the cookies.
I mean, parmesan is delicious. But not in cookies.
I don't think, at least.
Further investigation is required.
5. James Taylor has always had it, always will.
6. This is too much plastic surgery. And not enough bathing.
7. Add this to your Things I Do Not Ever Want To Knit list.
8. This is still not a cool art project.
9. Absolute not. Under no circumstances.
What do you know to be true this fine day in May?
Reader Comments (12)
1) Aqua blue always makes me happy.
2) Fruit salad (strawberries, mango, kiwi, blueberries) is another perfect food.
3) So are cookies and parmesan.
4) Starting cute projects is so fun!
5) A good run of WIP-itis eventually gives way to FinishItUp-itis.
6) Or RipItOut-itis.
7) Baby Shamrock Is so lucky to have a great dyer/knitter like you for a momma!
Three Things I know to Be True:
1. TIG Yarn is one of the universe's most perfect joys.
2. Cheese is one of nature's most perfect foods.
3. A good foot rub is one of nature's most perfect activities.
1. Continuing your point, there is nothing like too many books, just not enough time
2. When you are knitting a 10-row lace repeat on 400+ stitches, you have your previous lifeline on row 10 of the last repeat, and when your brain tells you to put a lifeline on row 8 before starting the row 9, you ask that voice to shut up and continue knitting anyway, you will always, always end up with a wrong stitch count after row 9.
1) There is no such thing as owning too many books, only not enough bookshelves.
2) Nothing fixes a bad day quite like having a dog thrilled beyond all reason to greet you when you get home. (Could be true with kids and such as well, but I have no such personal experience.)
3) Most food can be improved with a slice of avocado. BLT+avocado? Best sandwich ever.
I know this to be true:
1. Flamingos make me get a goofy, happy smile on my face. Yeah, the plastic yard ornaments. What can I do?
2. There are always more projects to knit than time to knit them.
3. I love the thrill of starting a new knitting project! I love each and every one - Hence my 17 WIPs.
4. Pineapple and Canadian Bacon pizza is a perfect food and I could eat it every day.
1. Parmesan and rosemary shortbread cookies are delicious.
2. There is little comfort better than a cat sitting on your feet.
3. There is little more annoying than a cat insisting on wet food at 4:30 in the morning.
4. Tomatoes taste like summer.
5. The best part about eating ginger candies is that almost everyone else thinks they're gross, so one seldom has to share.
Agree with all the knitting statements. And let's talk about piles of FOs while we are at it!
The ginger candy statement made me think of sauerkraut. The only person I ever had to share it with was my dear departed Aunt Madelyn--and she always shared hers with me, so it was OK. No one else ever cared.
Okay, that last one is just weird.
I think you've summed it up quite nicely, thank-you. You've covered all the bases.
I agree with everything except #9.
Mr. Shrunken-head-mummy with the octopus lower body and the ducky hat is maybe the coolest thing. EVER.
Ever.
Quality ice cream on sale is too good to pass up, even if you are on a diet.
(Blue Bunny Naturals, Turtle Sunday at ZUPS for $4.99!)
Also, a friend who offers to babysit so you can have date night is a thing to cherish.
Finally: if you can get a table on the deck with a lake view, you are lucky indeed!
I DO like my dogs more than I like most people. Dogs know you are monumentally short of perfect and love you anyway or maybe because of that; and dogs have lots more fun, spontaneously and for little or no reason.
Knitting for my grandchildren keeps the projects manageable. The WIP time is short, the projects and colors change often, and the satisfaction of a FO happens often. Win, win, win. And when said grandchildren are thrilled that you are making something for them, joy, joy, joy. :)
The perfect food? Calamari with pepper sauce and fresh bread with a side of pasta in marinara sauce and a glass of red wine, fried chicken, NY cheesecake with raspberries and a drizzle of chocolate sauce, a huge tossed green leaf salad with carrots, onions, avocado, marinated mushrooms, marinated artichoke hearts, pickled beets, deviled eggs, bacon bits and Caesar dressing with club crackers and a bottle of Perrier on the side. Wait, does the article "the" and the lack of an "s" on "food" mean ONE perfect food? Hm. Well, OK, I'll go along with cookies.