Not much creative to report this week. I did start working through the zentangle Be Well series from 2024 again, and still not finding a lot of enjoyment in it. Then why are you doing it, you well may ask? Because I'm that way about something I start, be it a book or a class or whatever, soldiering on in the hopes that things will get better, that I will still get something out of it. And when I look back at what I've already done, even as recently as what I did yesterday, these triangular zentangles always look better than I remembered them. I'm still substituting colored pencil for the gel pens they keep using, going my own way when I can. Bothered that I still find I don't have a very steady hand for drawing some of the lines. Getting old, shaky at times . . .
Oddly enough, my sighing of last week over the issue with the eyelet cardigan turned to enthusiasm. Once I'd studied the pattern and the sleeves as they sit on the body of the sweater, I could see it was not me who made the mistake and could see how to reknit one sleeve properly. My excitement to get going on it, balling up another skein of yarn and casting on, definitely surprised me. But I got to thinking about my resolution word of the year - resist less - and could see I was resisting which would get me nowhere, not solve the problem. Once I stopped resisting, it was full steam ahead. Feeling good to be knitting away. Now to also get going on something in the studio, ideas aplenty.
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