Hello Invisible Audience!
Okay!
So this probably doesn't sound like a big deal, but bare with me, because I'm about
to explain why it's a big deal - but I started knitting a pair of socks.
Okay I know this does not look very impressive but like, that's the cuff, that's where you
stick your foot in, and then it's got a heel, and the heel actually turns, like it should!
I turned the heel!
This is great!
It's happening!
I'm knitting a sock!
So I know you're thinking 'Why do I care that you're knitting a sock?'
- But!
I've wanted to knit socks for the past... six? years?
I think?
This is literally an achievement years in the making.
In high school I taught myself to knit with the express purpose of one day being able
to knit socks.
When I started I could only do very simple, very, very basic, very boring knitting.
I just knit scarves for people!
And they were super lame!
Slowly year by year I would teach myself new skills in knitting.
So I learned how to purl and knit, I learned how to, you know, do ribbed stitching and
stuff like that.
I learned how to knit in the round, I learned how to knit three dimensional objects.
I very slowly started gathering the skills that I needed to knit socks, and like, every
other year or so I would find a sock pattern, and I would look at it, and be like, 'alright.
Can I do this?' and I would start trying to knit a pair of socks and fail miserably, and
just have to wait until I learned something else.
And I am finally there!
I finally reached that point!
I am knitting a pair of socks!
It's happening!
Ii is - it's real!
And admittedly, it did take about six years.
That's a long time.
And part of the reason it took so long is every time I learned a new skill I would look
at how much more I needed to learn before I could actually knit a pair of socks, and
I wouldn't knit anymore until the next winter because that was overwhelming, that was too
much work.
It all had to be broken up and learned gradually, one thing at a time before i could actually,
finally, put it all together into creating the thing that I've wanted to create from
the beginning.
This is the lesson that I've had to learn every year leading up to this pair of socks,
is that learning something new takes time, and it takes hard work, and it takes effort,
and everything gets easier with practice.
And this applies to everything!
From knitting, to art, to youtube videos, to being a better person.
To get better at anything, you need to put in the effort.
And I've had this specific ball of yarn, that I purchased four years ago, to remind me of
that up until this point - but once this becomes a pair of socks, I won't have this ball of
yarn sitting around to remind me of this anymore and so I'm making this video, to remind myself
instead.
I think it's been universally accepted that this year has been The Worst?
And I don't completely buy into that, 'cause I think that looking at the year in the whole,
if you're only focusing on the bad things, you're missing out on So Much.
So I'm not gonna say that this year has been a complete loss, but I'm not gonna say that
it's been entirely great either.
But what I am going to say is that if we want our future to be better, we're going to have
to work hard.
So don't give up.
I know this sounds super cheesy, and lame and cliche and you're going to hear this all
the time, constantly, but don't give up.
It's going to be hard work, but don't stop trying to do whatever it is that you want
to do.
Keep working hard to make art, to make friends, to make the world a better place.
If I can spend six years learning how to knit a sock, I think you can accomplish whatever
it is that you're trying to do.
The future is ours to mold, and I am Real Bad at pottery, but like...
I can practice.
I genuinely hope that this new year is good to all of you, and that you all just like,
follow your gosh darned dreams, alright?
Cool.
Ptchew, ptchew, ptchew!
For those of you, who want some Knitting Tips, uh, stoppers!
You know?
So that you don't, so your stitches don't fall off your needles.
These are the erasers from crappy pencils that I was never going to use.
I just took the little erasers and just jabbed them on the end here and bam!
Now I don't lose any stitches.
There's your kitting tip.
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