Sometimes what you really need is to kiss...

​When you lose your mojo it’s not always an easy thing to find it again.  I know how to find my car keys. Either on top of the fridge, or in the pocket of whatever I was wearing yesterday, but mojo is a lot more elusive.

I’ve tried diving head first into the Ravit hole and checking out all the fabulous things I could make.  That ended up with that drowning feeling though, which is what I am trying to avoid.  So, I’ve decided to KISS it.  Keep It Simple Stupid, and for a knitter the most simple thing ever  is a garter stitch scarf.

I have a particular love for The Knitographer’s Camp Fire Scarf.  Jo published this wonderful simple and striking design on her blog about two and a half years ago, and she knitted it in Vanitas.  It was one of the very first (if not the first!) patterns designed for an Outlaw yarn by someone else.   It’s always exciting and wonderful to see a project that someone has made in your yarn, but nothing quite beats the feeling of having a designer create something because your yarn inspired them.  It kinda feels a bit like Michelangelo painted a portrait of your baby!

Vanitas will always be special to me.  It was the first Outlaw Yarn released just in time for Knit August Nights three years ago.  In fact we only saw it an hour before all of you since the boxes were delivered straight from the mill to East Pier.  Opening a box full of those smiling, happy little faces was such a thrill!  Those of you who did a mill tour that year didn’t know it, but the yarn that you were looking at in the middle of production was the very first run of Bohemia Sport.   

There’s something very soothing about garter stitch.  I know some people find it boring, but to me it’s like meditation.  I don’t have to think about it.  I can just concentrate on the feel of the yarn and the needles in my hands.  My mind can wander, or I can watch TV without missing anything.   There’s no pressure, just simply being in the moment.  One stitch at a time.  It’s tiny moments of peace in the middle of the life chaos.  And gradually those little stitches become a lifeline.  Add in those colour block changes that happen just before I tire of looking at the same colour and suddenly, there it is...

A tiny spark of joy.

I might not have fully grasped it yet, but it’s a relief to know the mojo is still there.

#nofomo

:)

http://theknitographer.blogspot.co.nz/2015/04/camp-fire-scarf-pattern.html

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