In January 2016, after finishing my holiday crafting, I wrote the names of all the patterns I wanted to knit on slips of papers and dumped them into the top of an cup-shaped dance trophy. I drew one at random, and cast on the Cancan mitts.
Then I stopped knitting. I was jobless and struggling to learn a new language, and I stopped crafting. My creative energy disappeared, rerouted to deal with the stresses in my life.
Then I got a new job, and was assigned to a new project, and started flying around Europe every single week. I did not knit on the plane. The first mitt languished unfinished through the end of the year and into 2017. It was spring before I found myself sitting in a train instead of a plane, and confident enough in my work, to have some energy to make things again. Then I finished the mitts.
They are too small for me. I refused to do anything about that. They are done and off my needles and gone, and I have moved onto other projects.
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