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cimoreneME THIS WEEK, EVERY TIME I START TO FEEL STRESS: Why think about my problems any longer when I can just knit this giant lace afghan instead?
From an avoidance or procrastination point of view a project like knitting, which accomplishes none of the things I am avoiding and none of the things I'm even slightly reluctant to do but nonetheless consumes time and attention, is quite useful (or dangerous, you might say). It provides the superficial feeling that I'm accomplishing something, making progress, and doing something constructive, because in every case I am, but like... just not the things that I kinda should do (but like, who WOULDN'T rather knit than figure out how to clean behind the refrigerator, or knit than launder all their rugs again even though it's only been a week and a half?). And a giant knitting project is extra useful because then my subconscious can be like, "We're busy right now... we'll start the task of organizing something else that requires persistence and determination after we finish using our persistence and determination for this knitting."
It isn't warm enough yet to benefit from a cotton afghan (as a substitute for a duvet in the hot part of summer), but it's getting warmer. At this rate, though, it's possible I might manage to finish it in time to get some use out of it this year.
The white cotton was recovered from somebody's yarn-hoarding elderly relative years ago; I'm going to washing-machine-dye the whole thing once it's finished.
From an avoidance or procrastination point of view a project like knitting, which accomplishes none of the things I am avoiding and none of the things I'm even slightly reluctant to do but nonetheless consumes time and attention, is quite useful (or dangerous, you might say). It provides the superficial feeling that I'm accomplishing something, making progress, and doing something constructive, because in every case I am, but like... just not the things that I kinda should do (but like, who WOULDN'T rather knit than figure out how to clean behind the refrigerator, or knit than launder all their rugs again even though it's only been a week and a half?). And a giant knitting project is extra useful because then my subconscious can be like, "We're busy right now... we'll start the task of organizing something else that requires persistence and determination after we finish using our persistence and determination for this knitting."
It isn't warm enough yet to benefit from a cotton afghan (as a substitute for a duvet in the hot part of summer), but it's getting warmer. At this rate, though, it's possible I might manage to finish it in time to get some use out of it this year.
The white cotton was recovered from somebody's yarn-hoarding elderly relative years ago; I'm going to washing-machine-dye the whole thing once it's finished.
