Bad vibes, stress and knitting! Oh my!

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | FO's, UGH!, blah blah blah, knitting, sweater

So right after the Ravelry event I got pretty sick. I must have felt it coming on. It was so bad I couldn’t get any knitting done. I would have been content to sleep all day long…given I wasn’t barfing at the time.

So I spent an entire weekend being ill, then my little boy got it, then my little girl got it…

Then other weird stuff started happening in all aspects of my life. Weird as in “not good”.

To be honest, life had me pretty disgusted. I had no urge to knit. I had a fear…and you can call me crazy if you wish…but I felt like if I even touched my sweater I would transfer some sort of bad vibes to it. I wasn’t prepared to do that. It is my first self-designed sweater.

So I had a talk with my friend Kate at work. She had this fabulous idea for knitting when bad stuff is happening. She said I could knit an “anger blanket”.

Yes, an “anger blanket”, but I imagine it can be knit for any kind of negative feeling or bad vibe you might have. Keep it around for all those times you want to choke someone out with a pair of circular needles, if you are depressed, hurt, grieving…whatever yucky feeling you might have.

Once you’re done, bless the thing, or have it blessed by someone less negative, and donate it to the homeless.

Bad vibes turned into something positive. I like the idea. I am going to do it.

So, everything above postponed my self-imposed knitting deadline. I want to report that I did finally finish my sweater…and it looks great. I think it is my fourth official sweater…and it is the first I designed myself. I can’t wait to wear it…with only positive vibes.