I see you Friday.
Hello Friday. I see you.
And I’ve knit a whole round since Wednesday.
Which, when each round is 1000+ stitches, isn’t as measly as it feels to say (well, type.)
I’m still looking for some sort of (non sucky) Friday “ritual.”
I’d love to hear any thoughts or ideas.
But I’d rather not have shoulds. ie. “you should…”
Oh! Hello hello Friday.
Hello, hello, Friday. You are mighty sneaky.
It’s been how many weeks of missed FO Fridays? Fridays. They are sneaky, sneaky. So I’m looking for a new way to notice and mark Fridays.
I really like the idea of FO Friday, but it’s not quite sitting right anymore. It feels forced and awkward.
I just don’t work on projects that can be finished in a week. Then I don’t have an FO to show one Friday, so I take that Friday off, and then I feel a little bad. Then one Friday becomes a string of Fridays, and I feel guilty. ick
THEN when I do finish something, I want to show you! And I don’t want to wait till the next Friday. But I feel like I should. More guilt. more ick
I still want to talk about and show you finished objects. And I absolutely will! (Because I love it.) Just not necessarily on a Friday, and most definitely not every Friday.
So I’m looking for a new way of acknowledging Fridays.
Qualities I want in this new marking of Friday:
ease, simplicity, elegance, spaciousness, flexibility.
A combination-type-thing of Havi’s Friday Chickening, Tara’s Adventures, WIP Wednesdays/FO Fridays, and me.
With some elegant simplicity please.
I’m not sure what form this new “noticing Friday” could take. Or what exactly it’ll look like.
But I’m open to ideas. And I’m willing to play and adjust until it feels right. Comfortable.
The Comments:
I’d love to hear thoughts, ideas, stories, about marking time, or noticing time.
I’d rather not have “shoulds.”
process or product?
Process or product?
Do you knit for the process of knitting, or the product you’re producing?
I would suspect that for many of us it’s about both.
I love the process of knitting.
The basic act of pulling loops of string through loops of string.
I find it as natural as breathing.
It’s a meditation. Embodying ease, rhythm, fluidity, flow, peace, knowing.
Every time I pick up needles it’s an act of affirmation.
I know that I know how to knit.
But at the same time, I don’t knit just to knit.
I knit towards something.
Not necessarily towards a finished object, but maybe. Or maybe it’s a swatch, or an idea, or a thought.
But I don’t knit for the sake of knitting.
I may not always get where I was planning on going, but the intention is still there.
The intention shapes what, how and where I knit. But the intention isn’t the process, and it’s not the final produced, even though it shapes and guides both.
Do I knit for an intention?
I don’t think I knit for it, but I certainly knit with it.
I knit for the sake of creating.
I knit so I know that I know how to knit.
I knit to strengthen the connections, and reaffirm the process, to confirm that I can still pull loops of string through loops of string.
I engage in the process with the intention of creating a product.
But when it comes to pulling loops through loops, and piling stitches on top of each other, I knit so I know, that I know, how to knit.
I knit so I know, that I know, how to knit.
It’s the process that I’m engaged in. Maybe the product is more of a planned afterthought?
I've always just knit. I've never really asked why before. I just knit, because I knit. So this is me trying to tease out the why. And if I know me, tomorrow I'll disagree with half of this, and think the other half is trite. But that's tomorrow. For now, here we are.
