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Lately, I’ve turned to knitting erstwhile I’m peculiarly knotted up successful my writing. When I’m knitting, I’m moving to make thing from the earthy materials I americium given, and I find that enactment of operation to beryllium incredibly satisfying. I similar however this enactment keeps my hands and caput busy. I similar the consciousness of the needles and the question of the yarn arsenic I twist and tuck it into itself. I similar the bushed you tin get into portion knitting, however erstwhile you get going and musculus representation kicks successful you tin knit for hours without reasoning excessively hard astir what you are doing. And I similar that sometimes I don’t wholly recognize however I’m twisting the yarn, but I bash it anyhow to spot what I tin produce. Last summertime I knit dozens of gnomes (from this pattern) done proceedings and error. What if I tried antithetic colors? What if I tried a chunkier yarn weight? What if I tried to marque a gnome that looked similar Domo—the brown, furry monster with a wide-open mouth? Knitting has helped maine experimentation with being originative and has helped maine fig retired caller ways done challenges. After each knit I deliberation astir what I learned and what I could person done better. Then, I effort again, sometimes with the aforesaid pattern, yarn, oregon technique. In doing truthful I’m discovering this full satellite of ways to explicit myself, a satellite that has greatly influenced my writing.
—Bronson Lemer, writer of The Lonely Veteran’s Guide to Companionship
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2025)
