Reframing the Masters

Fun Knitting

As John Lennon said, life is what happens when you are making other plans.  With my Dad's hospitalization in November I am now spending most of my time at his house in the role of caregiver.  He can't drive anymore, needs help with his medications, finances and those other things which are so much a part of living independently.  I am still trying to figure out how to manage this new situation.

 

With my one year deadline coming up on the Master's level 1 in March I had to think hard about what the role of the Master's was going to look like in my life.  Add to that the change in the instructions and I really had a conundrum. I could put a lot of pressure on myself to power through the rest of the requirements or I could just practice letting go and accept that the Masters and I are going to have a long slow courtship.   It was while knitting a small sweater for an imaginary grand child that I had an epiphany.  I have struggled with the correct way to weave ends into a knitted piece.  Arenda Holladay had tried to help me at the recent Reno conference, but my brain was on overload and she probably thought I was a complete dunderhead. So while looking at about 20 ends that needed weaving in I thought I would just practice, it wasn't for the master's so there was no pressure for perfection and I could just practice learning the technique.  If I made mistakes,  the mistakes wouldn't matter, I could just use them as an example of what worked and what didn't.

 

In other words I am letting go and plan to have a long slow courtship with the Master's Level 1.  There is enough pressure in my life right now without adding more.  So I now have the new instructions and a new sense of peace about completing anything by a certain deadline.  Knitting is more fun and I think I am finding the balance I need to make learning fun.