knitting kizmet

Lots of synchronicities have been happening to me concerning my knitting lately. It's making me feel very at peace with the world.

After I survived all the layoffs at work still employed, I feel a need to give something back to the world at large. I am attempting to set up a knitting charity knitch at work. I will leave needles, yarn, patterns and charity information so that employees can knit or crochet items to donate during their breaks. I will collect the items and send them to the charities. A few weeks after I thought of this idea I bought the book "Knitting for Peace." A couple of days after I bought the book I was watching Knitty Gritty, and Vicki Howell had one of the authors on the show talking about knitting for charity.

At the same time that this has been happening, I've developed an itch to design my own knitwear. I bought a few books on the subject and started sketching. The very next morning I read in a blog that it's National Knitwear Design Month. That afternoon I get my IK magazine in the mail and it has reviews of knitting design books (including the ones I bought) as well as an article about determining sleeve caps, which has confounded me.

Of course the spiritual side of me wants me to believe that this is because the knitting charity knitch and designing knitting patterns are things that are "supposed to happen" to me and the universe is providing – the whole power of intention thing. The logical side of me thinks that there must be a lot of us out there thinking about this stuff, and the media is just responding to our needs. That I'm just one person and the idea that the universe responds to me is ridiculous. Or maybe I've seen stuff on the subjects in the media before and I've forgotten about them, and now I think there's some great coincidence going on.

My brain's right and left sides would battle continuously if I let them. So I'm trying not to think about it. I'm just gonna go with the feeling that I am at harmony with the universe. Couldn't hurt.