Spirituality & Silliness

Under normal circumstances, I would have spent the bulk of yesterday at home, quitely watching the September 11th Memorial, and thankfully reflecting on the blessings in my life. However, yesterday yhe authors of The Knitting Way were holding a book signing at Yarn Central, and I agreed to help out. I felt that the content of the book was so relevant to the day that I could not stay away.

It was lovely to spend a few hours with the authors, one of whom was the founder of Patternworks, as well as various Yarn Central patrons, discussing the process and the spirituality of knitting.

It's sort of a workbook -- an Artist's Way for knitter's if you will -- with projects that work out the process laid forth in each chapter. The idea of reading or using a book out of chapter order defies my book convention, which means that I must force myself to jump to the chapter on lettting go of perfection to do a few of those projects!

While I don't fancy knitting up pasta in the near future, I do embrace the idea of a more relaxed and playful approach to knitting -- or anything. I'm often crippled by the need for perfection. Such that I'll never even try a craft or endeavor simply because I fear that my first go-around will suck and be a miserable failure.

It was a quiet but silly evening with Joe and the boys. We watched the U.S. Open, Poirot, and some bad reality shows. We tortured Kevin with our collective silliness as he tried to make us sit for a Family Photo assignment for English class. That blinding flash of light to my right is Joe, who looks as if he's about to be transported through time and space.