hindsight is strong
I ended my day with some knitting, still puzzling through the sleeves of the sweater, and raglan shaping. This is the first time I've done any of this, and I'm very much learning as I go, and taking the time to back track when I know I missed something or didn't do something the correct way.
All this back tracking has made me realize, though, that hindsight is strong! By going back over my work, taking it out stitch by stitch to get back to a certain point where I should have done a different thing, I've realized that most of what I'm doing is right. I get back to where I've been working to, and realize I was right all along, and I should have had a little more confidence in myself.
This is why I love knitting. In real life, you can't go backwards, you just have to trust that what you're doing is right. With my knitting experience, I'm confident that my intuition is spot on, and this makes me feel that everything will be alright. The phase I'm in right now is just a new section of something I've already proven to be pretty good at, and I have the skills to get through it and shape it into something beautiful.
To anyone reading this, take a moment to do something slow and repetitive, like knitting or crocheting, and make something whole, a finished product. It's worth it. Make something.
Signing off now.