Every year, when I start knitting again, I go through the “I love knitting! It’s so great and relaxing and fulfilling” epiphany.
And here we are again, folks.
I was chatting with my snis on Tuesday about things she needs for the new baby and she told me how she’d been thinking about using the same blanket I made for her firstborn, William, for the new baby’s photos, but then decided she’d rather have something he could have as his own.
And before I knew it I was offering to make the same blanket for him as I did for William, but with a different color featured (yellow, instead of mint).
I started it Tuesday night and spent most of Wednesday (we had a federal holiday) watching bad Netflix holiday movies (The Princess Switch and Christmas Wedding Planner) and knitting.
What a perfect day. Wake up and knit. Eat breakfast. Run. Take a hot bath. Have lunch and knit. Go buy yarn. Go home. Watch a movie and knit. Eat dinner. Knit some more.
I’m not creative/crafty, so knitting has me using a part of my brain that I don’t tap in to very often, and my brain LIKEY. It’s incredibly fulfilling to MAKE something with my hands, and to see the progress of it as it “grows.”
Other benefits: knitting keeps me from snacking and from playing with my phone when I’m bored because my hands are occupied!
Downsides: I can’t pay attention to much else when I am doing it (a person talking to me, a movie, etc.), it gets frustrating when I mess up, and it uses up most of my free time.
Isn’t it strange that I drop it each year and pick it back up and have this realization? I don’t know what that’s about. I somehow have a TON of yarn. I should just make things year round and donate them.
Plus knitting is a great activity to do in the winter when it is cold outside!
Yes! It’s a very cozy activity! Knitting sometimes gets too hot in the summer!
LOVE THIS POST. The new blanket is so cute – and how fun that your sister will have two sets of pictures with these special blankets for the background!
Thank you, and thank you! I am excited about that too. I can’t wait to see the new guy on this blanket. I am over a third done now!
The yellow looks nice!
Thanks! 🙂
I’m so glad you’re enjoying knitting and all its therapeutic benefits! And I love that it keeps my hands busy too. 🙂
It’s so much better than playing with my phone while we watch stupid movies! 😉
Such a pretty color combination! Also, can we talk about how deliciously awful The Princess Switch was? Hahaha. I watched that last week and was just overjoyed by it. It was SO bad but I would watch it again in a heartbeat. Cheesy Christmas movies just get to me.
Thanks!
OMG yes. It was so amazing. My favorite of all the bad ones so far. I especially loved how they pick out a movie to watch on Netflix together. Ha! They do that on The Holiday Calendar too.
I am so lucky to have such a kind & giving snister to make baby #2 a blankey just like William’s!!! I love the yellow too!! <3 It's perfect, and he will love it!! Thank you!!!!
You’re welcome! 🙂 I am over half way done now!
I love the blanket! I think yellow and grey look great together. When I was a camp counselor, I really liked making friendship bracelets, which I think is quite similar to knitting from a keeping-your-hands-busy, seeing-progress standpoint. They aren’t quite as hot of a commodity in the real, grown up world as they are in the summer camp world, so it’s been awhile since I made one, but every now and again I think about getting back into it. It’d certainly be a better use of my time than playing on my phone!
Thank you! I can totally see that having the same effect! I wonder if that’s part of the reason kids like those rubber band bracelets a few years ago? I think it would be awesome if you started making them again 🙂
The blanket looks amazing you are so talented.
Thanks! 🙂