Unravel

My first foray into the kniting world is a red scarf. I figured a simple scarf would be perfect for learning and for getting the basics down. I knew I would make mistakes and would just have to deal with them. And thanks to Monday Night Craft Night with my friends, I became more than eager to make those mistakes.

Unfortunatley, I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist at times. When I made a mistake I went running to my friend like a little girl looking to her mommy to fix it. Luckily, most were easily fixed.

Then I decided to do some work on it alone at home. I did quite well for a while until I found a couple mistakes I made a few rows down. I tried to fix them as best I could, from the point at which I was. But, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't make it right.

So I began to unravel the thread. Row by row, I undid all those knits that I made; some perfect, some not so great; until I was back to where it all went wrong. With a couple of twists of the needles, what was wrong became right and I continued on paying even more attention to the rest of my work.

Sometimes I wish life could be like that - you get an opportunity to go back to that one point that just went wrong and make it right. Instead, we try to fix it from the current point, but we can't. We either live with the mistake, that bad thing that happened, or we try our hardest to cover it up but it's still there waiting for something to snag it and cause it to unravel.