Friday, January 10: Perseverance

Today I am grateful for a quality I possess: perseverance. Without it I would have never finished my latest project; my own pair of knitted socks. The pattern I chose turned out to be a bit more advanced than I was ready for and the author made quite a few assumptions about the knitter's understanding of sock vocabulary (seriously, I learned new words and new stitches) and level of understanding on how to carry out some of the steps. Plus there were some errors in the instructions which did not help matters. I am also super grateful for the internet and all of the people who posted YouTube videos and blogs on how to do certain steps. Without those resources I might have been forced to give up on the project. But I am stubborn and strong-willed (but for the purposes of this blog I have chosen to spin these qualities in a positive light and call them perseverance...) so even though I had to pull that first stupid sock apart about 3 times, watch numerous videos and rely on some Knitting for Dummies blog posts- I finally made my first sock. The second sock felt like it came together with divine intervention, it went so well compared to experience #1. Now I love making socks and am thinking each of my family members needs to have some homemade socks- I hope they will be grateful for my perseverance ;-)