Doing Penance

If you've been knitting for awhile then I'm sure that you've experienced the pain of having spent weeks if not months lovingly and painstakingly knitting gifts for others only to find out  that a recipient (that careless, undeserving, thoughtless) recipient has gone and lost your beautiful hat or scarf or mitten. Mindlessly left it behind, no doubt, on a bus or train or airport or in the shopping mall or some other irretrievable location.

I know your pain. To have something you invested your time, energy, money and very soul into making just vanish into the vast unknown is heartbreaking to say the least.  At best you hope that someone else picked it up and values it like found treasure. At worst you imagine it lying in a soggy pile of muddy snow, all your beautiful work being carelessly stepped upon by passers by.

Of course, most recipients feel equally bad about having lost the hand knit. They may even beg and plead with you to make them a replacement to prove that the loss was not intended. To prove that they really did love and value the item you made.

Now if  it turns out that you, the knitter of the garment,  just  happen to also be the (careless, undeserving, thoughtless)recipient of the garment....

I present the start of my penance scarf with true remorse for the loss of the very first scarf I ever made. I find I simply cannot live without it.

It's the "Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks" pattern in Manos Cotton Stria color 223 (Pure Peruvian Cotton Kettle Dyed).

It can never completely replace my very first scarf,(lost during our Christmas travels) but I'm grateful to be able to at least knit another one in loving memory.

Comments

[Deb]

I love this post!!!!!

[Patsy Bratcher]

Oops, I posted on another site about having to rip back the red lacy hat because I was so sleepy that I was knitting with my eyes closed. This leads to a lot of ripping back.

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