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LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!

1/3/2019

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LET THE GAMES BEGIN!  BRING ON THE HARD STUFF! CHARGE!!  Sometime after midnight moving from 2018 to 2019, I walked through a door and closed it.  I woke up the next morning with more energy, more creativity and more spunk (I hope you're not like Lou Graham and hate spunk) than I've had in a year.  I'm ready for a new year filled with. . . 
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FEARLESS KNITTING.  I've had My Year of Selfish Knitting which changed my knitting life.  Now selfish knitting is just the way I roll.  No "have to" knitting only "want to" knitting and only knitting that brings me joy.  I have also had times of creative and experimental knitting, moments of grateful knitting and those wondrous times of 'let me help you" knitting.  Those are all awesome, heartfelt and important.  This year is about risks and learning and stepping off the ledge at times.  This year is about challenging patterns and colors.  It is about stretching myself and improving my skills.  Will there be tears along the way?  There may be.  There will be frustration and being stumped and practice, practice, practice.  My Year Of Fearless Knitting will take me to a new level.  BUT it will also bring me great joy.  The Tetris scarf got me into the fearless knitting mind set.  When I was finished I was euphoric.  I was proud and ecstatic and ready for more.  I thought, "What if everything I knit gave me this feeling, this thrill!?!?!"
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This is fearless knitting!  I may not do any of those things (knit while watching a movie in the dark) but I will embrace the feeling.  I have made a list of 20 projects I might be tackling this year which would definitely put me in the category of Fearless Knitter.  Let me share a few with you
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Do you remember this?  A couple of years ago I started this at the Coastal Cottage.  I got to a place where two ombre colorways were too close in color and intensity and the pattern didn't show.  I put it away and when I brought it out, I couldn't figure out where I was in this very intricate pattern.  2019 is the year.  I will fearlessly tackle Parallax.
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Do you remember this?  I have the knitting of the body done in the round complete.  It is a cardigan.  You know what that means.  STEEKING!!!!  I must steek for the sleeves and up the front.  The thought of steeking makes my heart pound and my blood run cold.  If I didn't dye my hair, I am sure my hair would turn white at the thought of steeking.  If this isn't an example of fearless knitting, I don't know what is. 
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Do you remember this amazing garment?  Then you must remember this.
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I love this so much and was so frustrated by it that it must be part of My Year Of Fearless Knitting.  I have pondered for four years about a solution to the tangle mess and I think I have one.  We'll see.

I also went though my Pinterest, Ravelry and iBook patterns and have picked out 20 I think will fit in with My Year Of Fearless Knitting.  Let me share a few.
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This will be a year of learning new techniques and taking risks.  It will be a year of combining colors and yarn in new and different ways. It will be a year of racing to the edge then leaping over to create amazing treasures. It goes without saying this will also be a year of magic.
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Just think of the fabulous treasures I'll have for Christmas gifts next year (if I can part with them).  So I am ready!  Would you like to join me in a Year Of Fearless Knitting?  Well, LET'S GET STARTED!
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Linda Schwalm
1/5/2019 07:00:16 pm

You are not only ‘Fearless,’’ but also an ‘Inspired Knitter.’ Those two, combined with your other attributes, qualify you as a ‘Muse!’ I will join you as best I can, and challenge myself to try Fearless Knitting!

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    jan parson

    This blog is dedicated to Mary Helen Growt my first knitting teacher and the woman who changed my life.  The mission of Knitting: A Love Story is to preserve, share and promote the love of knitting.

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