A Most Pleasant Addiction

I couldn't help myself. I had to finish knitting the little hat I had started. I reached for it--and stopped. Again. And again. Then I gave in.

I once told a therapist that knitting is the OCD'ers dream. You get to do something overandoverandoverandoverandoverandover---and it's productive!!!

The rhythm of knitting is soothing to the soul. When I am stressed I reach for my knitting and soon the quiet clicking of the needles, the rhythm of the stitches get me in "the zone", that place where I lose myself in my work and all else fades away.

Another pleasant addiction is meeting with other knitters. I have met friends from all walks of life who I would never have come across except for this pleasant addiction. Knitters have an instant kinship. When a knitter sees another knitter knitting in public, there is a smile and understanding nod. Sometimes a conversation follows and before you know it a friendship is born.

I get downright crabby when deprived of my knitty spinny friends! When weather, illness  or gas budget keeps me away from my girls it's not pretty!

But there they are, my faithful yarnie friends the next time I come.

A most pleasant addiction, indeed.