This made me laugh and understand my not understanding myself at the moment a little easier. (Did that make sense??) I have yarn that desperately wants to be a Bigfoot Shawl and I’ve been resisting it because I’ve never made anything this big before, it’s more challenging than I’m used to, what if it doesn’t turn out right, it’s, it’s, it’s… Silly me. I should be listening to the yarn, not my fears!! I need to just do it. Start. Explore. Grow. Face my fears and all that.

Thanks Alison. Now a little piece of me makes sense. And I now know that yarn really does have a voice!

Mary

ah yes, that “voice” again — well, I’m slowly learning to listen to it

Makes sense to me.

I get it totally! I have a knitting pattern for a premmie/newborn baby hat swimming around my head in response to the knitmore girls’ contest. I have the exact color of yellow the yarn wants, no NEEDS, to be dyed, floating around in front of my eyes. I keep saying, NO! I’m too busy, I’m too tired, my plates too full. But it keeps talking. Not loudly, but persistantly. Knit me! Knit me! Knit me!
I guess I’ll just go get out the swift and check my stash of dyes. The pattern already wrote itself over coffee yesterday morning.
I know you can relate.

I love seeing the pictures and understanding the connection between them and what you’re knitting. Thanks!

Gee whiz! Talking yarn! Who da thunk?

humor –

SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. ‘Please don’t give me this juice again,’ she said, ‘It makes my teeth cough.’

When that “little voice” says “Knit me!” a woman just has to listen…….thus, the reason why I have more UFO’s than I should.

Can’t wait to see it – them – all of the ideas, the new book, the project that has taken on a life of its own…

What would be the title of the movie about your connection with yarn – the reverse of the Whorse whisperer… 😉

I love reading about your process (or the screams, as it were). Now, I am curious as to what the emergency is all about – all the good this combination of yarn and pattern does and will do.

Yep, we’ve been here before. I’m looking forward to the end of the story. 🙂

That is one of my favorites from your book, and I am lucky enough to get to pet it when i visit LynnH :-}