Dishes are Like Purling

I was doing the dishes the other night and thinking how wretched it is to have to wash goey disgusting dishes every single day when I had an epiphany...dishes are like purling!

You may be asking,filthy disgusting dishes are like purling? How?

Well. There is many a knitter out there who hates the purl; hates it with a passion usually reserved for despots and snakes, which is generally how I feel about dishes, but I do not happen to be one of those purl-hating knitters. I enjoy the purls. The purl stitches are the yin to the yang, the down to the up, the cold to the hot etc., etc., of knitting. Once you get the rhythm of them they are very enjoyable as enjoyable as the knit, if perhaps a little slower for the throwing knitter.

Dirty, dishes could also be thought of as the complementary negative of eating, and one could further extrapolate that dishes could perhaps (with difficulty) be enjoyed for their rhythm and regularity.

And so, it is my goal to learn to enjoy the crusted on filth and drudgery that is dishwashing, or at least learn not to loath it so much.

Toys!

I was at the library one fateful day a few weeks ago and decided to peruse the knitting section. I have looked at the books there many a time and have not seen many that piqued my interest but this day was different. I came across a toy book, well, not a TOY book but a book about making toys. Normally the thought of toy construction makes me writhe in horror, not because I dislike toys but because I hate the thought of so many ends to sew in, and parts to sew on, and tiny pieces to somehow attach ....ah!

Inexplicably I checked this book out and let it sit for a while at home, then started looking at it. That's when the magical thought occurred, (the magical thought is the one we each have when we suddenly realize and say to ourselves "Oh! Hey! I can do this. It might be fun." It has to happen in some way before every project gets started and sometimes it happens unexpectedly.) and I started to make my little TV.

Making my little TV turned out to be fun. Really fun. And you don't really have to sew in the ends because you just pull them through the toy and leave them. That's right leave them because who cares? You can't see them. The toy is stuffed. STUFFED.

I like this idea of stuffing. So far I've made two toys and I have a strong feeling more will be coming.