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\"Franklin

About a decade ago, a sharp-eyed coworker noticed that I often snapped six or seven pencils in half during staff meetings. And that I often hid under my desk after staff meetings. And that even on those rare days without staff meetings, my face was contorted permanently into a Kabuki mask of rage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you\u2019re stressed out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

So I ate her.<\/p>\n

No. No, I didn\u2019t. But I did begin to look about me for ways to calm down. Knitting? I knew how to knit, but hadn\u2019t done it for years. The needlework revival was just begun, with new books appearing and new shops opening. I dove in, and felt better. The money I saved on pencils, I spent on yarn.<\/p>\n

I went to a knit night, where one of the seasoned regulars informed me that knitting was the new yoga. \u201cYou get a lot of the same mental health benefits,\u201d she said, \u201cbut you don\u2019t have to sit on the floor and sweat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flash forward to the present, where I am now on the other side of forty. You know how when you turn forty parts of you suddenly start to wear out and dry up and otherwise malfunction? If you don\u2019t, you will.<\/p>\n

So there I was, knitting merrily in my chair, not on the floor, not sweating; and I stood up to go get a glass of water. Parts of me I didn\u2019t know I had objected to this, and suddenly I was on the floor, sweating. Also, swearing.<\/p>\n

My doctor suggested that I find ways to loosen up and stretch out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do stretch,\u201d I said. \u201cI stretch before every workout.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay,\u201d said the doctor. \u201cBend over and touch your toes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFine,\u201d I said, bending over. \u201cNo problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

After she helped me to regain consciousness, we talked about yoga.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re spending too much time seated, hunched, and looking down,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I could give you pills for the short term, but in the long run you\u2019ll be better off if you find other ways to regain your flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

I started yoga on the same day as another fellow I\u2019ll call Charlie. Charlie\u2019s mat was next to mine, and at our first class we bonded over our shared inability to do Tree Pose without toppling like a couple of dead pines in a windstorm.<\/p>\n

Like all newcomers to yoga, Charlie and I found the discipline challenging in different ways. Charlie, who is by a nature a competitive, king-of-the-hill go-getter, was most frustrated by what he saw as slow progress towards achieving certain challenging postures like Crow Pose.<\/p>\n

After ending up on his nose yet again, Charlie complained to the teacher that it had been two months, and he\u2019d aimed to do a perfect crow in half that time. He\u2019d practiced, and practiced. It wasn\u2019t fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cCharlie,\u201d the teacher said patiently, \u201cI\u2019d like you to try to stop thinking about yoga in terms of goals. Release the outcome. Release the expectation. Just do what you can, right now, here, today.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so Charlie ate him.<\/p>\n

No. No, he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

But I (while wrestling with my own demons on the mat) realized that years of knitting were, to my great surprise, helping me with my yoga.<\/p>\n

When we knit (or crochet, or weave, or embroider, or sew, or\u2026) we learn a lot of lessons that are of use to the beginning yoga student.<\/p>\n

We learn to stay the moment.<\/strong> What\u2019s important? This stitch, right now. This<\/em> one. The one before is complete. The one after is out of reach. This stitch, right now. One at a time.<\/p>\n

We learn to let go of the outcome.<\/strong> Not to say we don\u2019t celebrate when the sweater is on the baby or the shawl is off the blocking pins. But we come to enjoy (or at least endure) the steps it takes to get there. Even those who would say they are more about the end product must to some extent enjoy the process. Because, as is often pointed out to us, you can buy<\/em> socks, you know.<\/p>\n

We learn that time is relative.<\/strong> The distance between one row and the next can feel like seconds or like years. On a great day, we forget about time completely. The work itself is becomes everything. We lose ourselves in it, and emerge refreshed.<\/p>\n

We learn that success is made of many failures.<\/strong> Possibly thousands of them. If you are me, tens of thousands of them. Don\u2019t sweat it. Pull out the stitches, rip out the seam. Do it again. And again. And again. You\u2019ll get there when you get there, so long as you keep moving.<\/p>\n

Lately Charlie and I are able to stand upright as a pair of wobbly trees\u2013most of the time. When we do fall down, we get back up. Staying up is growing easier. So is falling down. Charlie has stopped complaining about Crow Pose, and I\u2019m starting to think he might make an excellent knitter.
\nOne stitch at a time. One stitch at a time.<\/p>\n

\"Franklin

\u2014\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n

Writer, illustrator, and photographer Franklin Habit is the author of I Dream of Yarn: A Knit and Crochet Coloring Book (Soho Publishing, 2016) and It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008) and proprietor of The Panopticon, one of the most popular knitting blogs on Internet. His publishing experience in the fiber world includes contributions to Vogue Knitting, Yarn Market News, Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, PieceWork, Ply Magazine, Cast On: A Podcast for Knitters, Twist Collective, and Knitty.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

He travels constantly to teach knitters<\/a> at shops and guilds across the country and internationally; and has been a popular member of the faculties of such festivals as Vogue Knitting Live!, Stitches Events, Squam Arts Workshops, and the Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat.<\/em><\/p>\n

These days, Franklin knits and spins in Chicago, Illinois, sharing a small city apartment with a Schacht spinning wheel, two looms, and colony of sock yarn that multiplies alarmingly whenever his back is turned. Visit him at www.franklinhabit.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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