Tangled Thoughts

I practice yarn therapy, especially when the weather turns chill like it has been.

It's October and already I'm starting too late I know. I look through my pattern books and feel that thril of knowing that this or that item would be perfect for a Christmas present. Let's face it, I should probably start this in spring. Or maybe January? Because with so many children, with so many people I love, I want to make something for everybody.

I spent the last couple of days in yarn aisles at craft stores. Does anyone beside me walk along sampling textures with outstretched fingers? It's a treat for the eyes and a place of dreams. Spotting that color that's just perfect and then rummaging through that mental rolodex trying to match yarn to pattern to person. Sometimes I think I should shop with my Annie's Attic catalog in hand because so few stores have the variety of patterns I crave. But even so, I remember and come home and order gleefully because this is the kind of matchmaking I love the most.

Yes therapy.

Because as I pick up my crochet hook the world falls away. I can take a deep breath and CREATE.

What do you love to create?