satisfaction

There, dammit, I'm a knitter again.

['Project closeup: "wisp" variant']

Blame our visit to Catherine and Jeff in Illinois recently; I knew I had gorgeous yarn stashed away, and I knew I needed to just dive back in and get started, but it took seeing her lace knitting left casually out on the table that made me say "*@($*(&! I know how to do that."

Bit the bullet, set up a ravelry.com account.  (I'm amyqmc there.)

Came home, dug out the stuff, picked a project I knew I was capable of doing — and just did it. Felt much better, too.

Every person who makes any sort of craft, and gives those crafts away as gifts, hopes those items will go on to have long, useful, and productive lives after they’ve left the crafter’s hands. I got a bit of a preview tonight: