How about you? Is there a skill or craft you’re learning or honing in your life? Is this frustrating or freeing in your pursuit of growth in this area?
Practice makes…an avocado scarf
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6 responses to “Practice makes…an avocado scarf”
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It looks great! that garter stitch looks pretty darned even, so you are well on your way!! Good work, Michelle!
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I just began scarf number 2. I'm using bigger needles and fun, funky yarn that seems to hide my still-inconsistent tension.
All thanks to you, teach!
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Yay, another friend becomes a knitter! This is all very encouraging. I love the color of your scarf, and your tension does look pretty even so you shouldn't have too much trouble moving on to those second drafts.
You know, even when I went back to knitting recently after a 20-year hiatus I had to start with the basics, even though I knitted my way through my teenage and young adult years, and could make gloves and Norwegian sweaters and stuff like that. One of my first tries was a scarf very similar to yours. I was only able to move on by gradually increasing the difficulty of the pieces I knitted, until it all came back to me.
Look at it this way – if you had a friend who wanted to write but had poor grammar and spelling, would you discourage her? Of course not. You'd encourage her to practise, practise, practise, and work on the difficult bits all the harder. Because it's the act of creation that counts – we are all formed by God as creators with different skill sets, and the world we live in is shaped by gazillions of small or large acts of creation. Wear your scarf-shaped act of creation with pride!
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So very true: "Because it's the act of creation that counts – we are all formed by God as creators with different skill sets, and the world we live in is shaped by gazillions of small or large acts of creation."
Every stitch of avocado scarf was a tiny struggle against gravity and decay, like all of human creation.
I never got past the scarf stage when I was 9, but I'm encouraged by your example. I'd love to see some of your creations!
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Love your analogy to writing early drafts. Only *real* writers "get" what my father (a writer) taught me many years ago: "a good article/book isn't written; it's rewritten and rewritten and rewritten." I'm just glad I'm no longer having to use a manual typewriter to write those SFD's!
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I now adore the revision process, but back in the day, I remember having to commit to a change before I retyped it or face the propsect of dabbing Wite-Out onto the page. I do not miss having manuscripts looking like something that's been lying at the bottom of a birdcage!
Thank God for the delete key.
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