When Your Mojo Takes a Vacation
My mojo took a vacation. Now, I have had missing mojo difficulties before in the past–usually when a particular project was kicking my butt. But switching projects for a bit would work miracles. This time was different–one day, I simply put the needles down and didn’t pick them up again for 3 months. World of Warcraft is partially to blame. It is indeed a huge time suck.
Still, there have been plenty of times when I could have knitted, but I just didn’t. I don’t know why. Perhaps one of the reasons is that I kept feeling more and more guilty as each day that I didn’t knit went by, and I started to feel like my projects resented me. Over the years, I have spent quite a bit of money on yarn, needles, and patterns (especially patterns) that I wasn’t knitting. And I hate wasting money. Of course, it’s not like the yarn would go bad if I didn’t use it right away, and patterns have no expiration date, so taking a couple of months off doesn’t waste any money. I also felt guilty about not going to SnB. Don’t know why. While I’d like to think that a few of the gals missed my sparkling wit, it’s not like they’ll track me down and key my car for missing a few (many) Sundays.
You know what? As soon as I decided to stop beating myself up over not knitting, I feel the mojo begin to flow again. Strange how that happens, no? This Sunday, instead of dragging my laptop over to Dave and Linnea’s to play WoW, I hauled out my knitting. I worked a few repeats of a very undemanding project–a cabled headband. Although I did have to find the pattern because I no longer memorized, I hadn’t forgotten how to knit. Today, in celebration of my miraculous mojo return, I bought the kit for Sheldon from KnitPicks.
Welcome back! Sheldon is a cutie isn’t he? I was glad to see the yarn and needles out on Sunday. 🙂