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#KCBWDAY7 – Your Time, Your Place

Posted on May 27, 2015May 28, 2015 by bekswhoknits

I knit while waiting for the train,
I will knit whilst on a plane.
I will knit curled on my couch,
with cats at my feet about to pounce.

Sunny crafternoons knitting on the grass,
If I was in school I’d knit in class.
I can knit whilst walking home,
I will knit when on the phone.

Knitting is crucial when watching sport
Especially this year watching Port!
Knitting in public haters beware,
You’ll see me knitting everywhere.

*this is a post for the 6th annual knitting & crochet blog week hosted by ekimimi makes. To see other posts on this topic search #6KCBWDAY7

#6KCBWDAY6 – polls apart

Posted on May 26, 2015May 26, 2015 by bekswhoknits

If you could only knit one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?

*this is a post for the 6th annual knitting & crochet blog week hosted by ekimimi makes. To see other posts on this topic search #6KCBWDAY6

#6KCBWDAY5 – and now for something completely different

Posted on May 17, 2015May 17, 2015 by bekswhoknits

*this is a post for the 6th annual knitting & crochet blog week hosted by ekimimi makes. To see other posts on this topic search #6KCBWDAY5

** yes this is the extent of my drawing skills. This was drawn by a 30 year old, not a 7 year old.

#6KCBWDAY4 – Bags of Fun

Posted on May 16, 2015 by bekswhoknits

Bag number 1 – Editors

Contents: hand dyed yarn, 31 rows of cold pine on 5mm Hiya Hiya circular needles

Bag number 2 – Two Door Cinema Club

Contents: scissors, yarn needle, yarnvszombies fingering weight yarn, Baba Yaga socks on addi turbo 2.5mm circular needles

Bag number 3 – Tangerine Designs

Contents: yarnvszombies doctor who collection tags, one geek to craft them all doctor who collection stitch markers, snakeld scarf on birch circular needles in yarnvszombies 7th doctor colour way, home made lip balm from Twitter lovely Rocky, crochet hook, penguin tape measure from ravelry swap box, pen, nail clippers, bottle cap, cocoa butter lip balm, yarn needles, scrap yarn, carabena and stitch marker.

Bag number 4 – The Shins

Contents: blanket inspired by grandmothers favourite dishcloth on birch needles. 8 ply marvel soft yarn in 4 colours. Curious Tina-cat

Bag number 5 – Typo flip out case

Contents: carabena with handmade stitch markers, scissors, scrap yarn, pens, crochet hooks, pencil sharpener, sharpie, yarn needle, ruler/needle gauge, assorted double pointed needles, assorted short circular needles, modcloth measuring tape, Tina-cat.

*this is a post for the 6th annual knitting & crochet blog week hosted by ekimimi makes. To see other posts on this topic search #6KCBWDAY4

**I am in no way sponsored by yarnvszombies. I am however putting her cat through college.

#6KCBWDAY3 – experimental photography or knitting photos with song lyrics

Posted on May 16, 2015May 16, 2015 by bekswhoknits

we'll find our own way home somehow — Editors – Papillon

if i could paint the sky all the stars would shine upon in red — Phantogram – Black Out Days

there is a strength in enduring — CHVRCHES – Dead Air

i wont be no runaway cos i wont run — The National – Runaway

twist and turning like a catherine wheel — Blood Red Shoes – In Time To Voices

our secrets sleep in winter clothes — Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

*this is a post for the 6th annual knitting & crochet blog week hosted by ekimimi makes. To see other posts on this topic search #6KCBWDAY3

#6KCBWDAY2 – all about me

Posted on May 16, 2015May 16, 2015 by bekswhoknits

Knitting saved my life.

I believe this to be true.

My brain tells me lies.

It tells me that I’m not good enough, that no one wants me, no one could ever love me, the whole world is against me and I am stupid and ugly and mean and cruel and a terrible person.

My brain tells me these things daily.

I take medication to make me remember that my brain isn’t working properly. Most people don’t have their brain constantly telling them that they’re worthless and everything would be better off without them. Most days it works and these thoughts don’t consume me like they did before I found the right medication. Then there are other days when the lies my brain tells me get through to me and I have to be strong enough to not believe them. And I’m not always that strong.

Knitting helps me not believe the lies.

It shuts down my brain. I can knit and make things and my brain can’t lie to me because I can see it with my own eyes that I can knit. I can make things. I can make fucking awesome things!

Having something tangible that I can hold makes some of those lies go away.

Not always, but some of those days where I’m in a depressive state and all my strength is taken up by moving from the bed to the couch, I can pick up some knitting and make something. I can knit.

I can knit. My brain can’t tell me that what I make doesn’t exist.

That’s why I think knitting saved my life. If I didn’t have that crutch to fall back on, that tangible evidence that makes me realise that my brain lies to me…….