for a few minutes? Well, it's not that I think that knitters are a mindless bunch - on the contrary, I think knitters are very creative. Although I am not a knitter by any means, I do, however, very much enjoy the mindless calm of knitting. I haven't done any knitting in years - but the other day I bought a couple of skeins of yarn and decided to just do some simple knitting throughout the day, especially when I am in need of a short break. I've never made anything complicated, as you can see by the simple whatever-it-is I'm working on, but I was amazed how quickly the rhythm of the needles and yarn came back to me. As you might imagine, I don't expect to make anything particularly grand - but it's very soothing to just stop thinking for a few minutes and knit a couple of rows. Especially when I've just spent an hour or so trying to explain the correlation between the amount of income earned and the amount of income tax due on that income - to people who have absolutely no clue what I am trying to tell them.
And it beats poking one of them in the eye with a knitting needle...
I have a friend who often takes yarn and a crochet hook with her when she goes anywhere where she's going to sit for a long time. Sometimes she's working on something specific, but often she makes something and immediately rips it apart.
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