knitting is a hereditary disease

Knitting keeps the crazies away

Posted on 08/26/2008 by Andrea | Comments (0)
Filed under : Knitting

I've been thinking about stress relief lately, and about methods of coping. I asked my chiropractor if her adjustments could possibly have caused my right eyelid to begin twitching. It started twitching a couple of weeks ago, around the time I started seeing a chiropractor. She allowed that it's possible the adjustments could have something to do with it, but that eye twitches are more often caused by stress.

Stress? Impossible! I'm 19 weeks pregnant and more than one person has told me I've got that glow. I'm starting to feel the little bugger moving around in there and it's one of the most amazing experiences of my life so far. I was telling a friend on Saturday that maybe it's the pregnancy hormones, or maybe I'm just in a good place in life, but I've never been happier than I have been lately.

Still, I have to admit it's possible to be happy and under stress at the same time. There's a lot to do between now and January and I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed with it. My bathroom is half painted (and the half that's painted, I painted it so badly it's almost funny). The future baby's room is packed with non-baby-related junk almost to the point where you can't walk across the room.

But I take a deep breath and instead of painting or moving stuff out of that room, what do I do?

I knit.

I'm knitting the Sideways Sockyarn Baby Sweater. I don't have a photo of it in process (beyond the one I posted earlier), but Flickr user Spinnity has a photo of one that's at the same stage mine is currently at. And check out her lovely finished version.

Knitting is a wonderful stress relief as I'm sure anyone who knits would agree. I know there will be many more stressful moments in the next few months -- both baby-related and not baby-related -- and it's a comfort to me that I have something I know will keep my hands and my mind busy. Hopefully not to the exclusion of real preparation for the baby, but enough to keep me on the sane side.

I hope everyone has something like knitting in their lives. If not knitting, then reading or exercise or something. Something meditative and sane-making.