Resting Knit Face

No pictures, please

I spent last week cleaning my house. 

It’s certainly not the most scintillating task. But eventually clutter must be purged, be it thrown away or given away.

Part of my deep dive involved delving into an overwhelming number of old photos.  And I mean—old.

I found…

Wait for it…

TWO photos of me while I was knitting my first ever knitting project—my beloved Gryffindor striped scarf.

I used Boye aluminum US10.5 needles, Red Heart Super Saver yarns, no actual pattern, and included an impressive number of dropped and picked-up stitches. Also, let’s not forget that I didn’t know about “weaving in ends,” so I just knotted the tails at each color change!

I don’t want to share this photo because, seriously, it’s bad.

Sheesh, you don’t have to twist my arm so hard!  Here you go.

Enjoy!

Ok, so that was not a good look.  Not a good angle.  Did the photographer even give me a heads up that this was happening?!

Also, can we stop to appreciate how much the home camera—now phone—has improved over the decades?

This was taken so very long ago, that I don’t remember this photo.  I don’t remember knitting in this space.  Honestly, I don’t even know where that photo was taken!  (I surmise it was Christmas, thanks to the giant wooden Santa looming over my shoulder.)

But apparently that is how my face looked whilst I knit.

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I would love to think of myself, when I knit, as looking like some Grecian goddess with a Baywatch body and bathing suit, sitting and looking… serene—pensive—intelligent—inquisitive—and downright gorgeous, all while I knit the most expert level project known to knitkind.

However, I realize that now, like so many years ago, I don’t.

I have Resting Knit Face.

This is now a thing, and you’re welcome. (I would imagine I’m not the first to coin the phrase, but we’ll roll with it!)

How do you picture yourself while you knit?  Darling, you’re gorgeous, right? But is the reality quite as glamorous a sight?

You, like me, probably look a little, um, awkward, intense, focused?  Perhaps we’re not as Instagram-ready as we might like to imagine.

But ya know what I say?!

Wear your Resting Knit Face with pride!!!

We have stitches to worry over and patterns to accomplish.  We don’t have time to bother about what others think of our expressions while we are creating—literal—art!

And not just art… magic.

I can take two sticks and a ball of string and MAKE something—a hat, a sweater, a pillow, a penguin! That’s pretty magical! (My muttering, “Knit two, yarn over, knit two together,” repeatedly over my tiny cauldron of coffee and two clicking magic wands may also give that impression to passers by. 🤔)

How many other people can take such a basic set of resources and create complete wardrobes, or accessories for an entire home?  Not many, I would wager.

So, World, I tell you thus:

I will knit what I want, when I want, how I want. 

And do you know how I will look when I do it? 

Any way I darn well please.

Say this with me, Friends:

In KNITTING, I will not worry about the societal idea of how I should look, nor even of my own idea of how I should look.

Nay. 

I will do the work to the very best of my ability.  And I don’t care what my face looks like.

Besides, the way my expression will alight when I hold on high my Finished Object will blot out any insignificant memories of my past Resting Knit Face.

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