Today, today, today is the first day of Project Spectrum, and this year Lolly and the rest of the intarweb gang are focusing on the elements. Our first element is FIRE!
I love flames. My most brilliant memories have to do with fires and flames- summer camp and the brilliant success of building a one-match fire, or my failure to keep the fire alive with my high school boyfriend when we went back to New Hampshire to camp and it was 30 degrees at night and of course we ended up not being able to keep the flames of romance alive either. Those sorts of memories. I love sitting in front of a fire, even the fake sort of fire in my parents gas fireplace. I adore the bright reds and oranges and pinks in the flames, and am mesmerized by the hazy world immediately above them. I watch the Chanuka candles burn down to their last sigh of a smoke tendril, and am thankful for the celebration and the family around me.
I have some big goals for Project Spectrum, and specifically for this Fire beginning. I want to use it as an opportunity to burn down the past, figuratively, and reevaluate old projects that have been stagnant. Should they be frogged? Do they need revitalizing new life? Can I build something from the embers of their failures and incompleteness?
I also have a few new projects to add to the needles. I will finally swatch Autumn Rose- knowing full well that once I swatch it, I will no longer be afraid and can finally knit and wear the darn thing. I will cast on and hopefully complete the rust sweater I have been contemplating for ages, the yarn sitting hopefully by in my stash since Interweave Winter 2006. And I made this for my father ages ago, but bought the yarn to make one for myself. What could be better than to knit a holiday gift for myself, 11 months early, so when the holiday comes around I will be prepared and ready to display the flames of knitterly self-love?
I think that is all a good start.
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