Life is Unraveling – Knitting Mistakes & Life in Texas

Since I am just learning to knit, I told myself I’d be patient with mistakes – just unravel and redo. I’m making a baby

One of our brave watch dogs

blanket for my daughter, who is having a baby in November. All was going great until last night when I tried to add a second ball of yarn. The stitches looked funny on one side but I couldn’t figure out where the mistake was. I unraveled it and started the row over but it still looked weird. So I had to just put it aside for the night and figure I’d have another go at it today.

I guess my knitting is paralleling my life lately so maybe it is all coming from the same place. I believe that we get what we focus on the most and for the most part, I focus on positive, happy things and my life reflects that. Lately though, my life, just like my knitting, has seemed a little askew and I need to unravel, go back and start over with a more positive attitude.

Tommy the attack cat putting on his "mean" face

Two things happened lately that kind of threatened my sense of security. One was that our credit card number was stolen and used by someone else and also there was a home invasion in our neighborhood last week. We live in a nice, quiet neighborhood where not much happens so it’s disturbing to think someone would just break down the front door and come in. In this particular case, the homeowner had a gun and announced the fact to the intruders so they left before police arrived.

I don’t think being happy means ignoring anything negative and just believing “that can’t happen to me.” But I also think we can’t live our lives in fear that something might happen. With knitting, if I believed everything I tried to knit would go wrong, I’d never start in the first place. I begin with a project with a positive attitude and if something goes wrong, I just patiently unravel and begin again, making it better this time.

So with life I think we should just expect the best and prepare for the worst – but don’t focus on the worst happening. As far as our credit card goes, the bank handled it, took off the charges that weren’t ours and gave us another card. If I am vigulant with the account, just like being aware of my knitting stiches as I go, I will catch the mistakes before they are a problem.

As far as home security, we are getting an alarm system, something I’ve not wanted to do before. We have 2 dogs,

Going to unravel to back before the mistake.

motion detector lights outside and we’re now locking our storm door outside as well as the front door. My husband’s theory is that intruders would have to make a heck of a racket breaking down the storm door. My husband also put his NRA sticker on the front door so if the intruders can read, maybe they’ll think twice.

But, I’ve decided I’m not going to lay awake nights worrying about what might happen. You can waste a lot of time worrying about things that may never happen. I think to enjoy life, you have to focus on each moment and just know that if something “bad” does happen, you’ll handle it and move on.

It isn’t what happens to you in life, or in knitting, that really matters, it’s how you handle it that is the most important thing.

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