Wow, talk about a very neglected blog. When I first started this, my intention was to have it centered around the yarn we sell at my family’s store, Organic Imaginings, as well as the knitting projects we have going on to show off what the yarn can do. The goal, of course, was to increase traffic to our site and increase our sales.
Now, I’m not so sure. I haven’t created another post since the first one clear back in September. So, then what is the purpose of the blog? I honestly don’t know. As of this moment, I seem to have something inside of me that wants to be expressed that compares my knitting projects and how I approach them with some of the other projects in “life”.
Like everyone, I have some major goals that I would like to accomplish in my life. One of them being to have a fit, trim body. The other, to be completely out of debt, save some money, and actually contribute to a retirement fund. I’ve had these goals for most of my adult life and I’m now 44 years old! I haven’t accomplished either of them.
I have completed every knitting project I started. One of them took me over 18 years to complete, but I got it done! I’ve been wondering lately what is so different between a knitting goal and a life goal? They have in common a starting point, a whole lot of stuff in the middle (sometimes including one step forward, two steps back), and an end point; then new projects, new goals are set.
When I choose a pattern, the yarn, the needles, etc., and then finally cast on, I know it may take months to complete the project, especially if it’s something big, like a sweater. I am OK with that and I know that it’s part of the process; I have no doubt that I will eventually finish my knitting project. But when it comes to achieving some of life’s big goals, I get totally stopped and overwhelmed. To be truthful, I’m sure I get caught up in “wanting it now and if I can’t have it now, then why bother”?
Of course, I am totally addicted to knitting. Could that be the only difference? What are your thoughts and experiences?
