D'vorahDavida
Yetzirah

After handling all my knitted items yesterday, and getting a good look at what I have to sell, I started to get a little panicked that I don't have much of a plan for replenishing my stock as things sell. I have puttered with my knitting this winter. Not exactly in full force. In my defense, I have been a little preoccupied with my life falling to pieces and everything, but still…I knew the market was coming. In my other defense, I spent a lot of time making watercolors and I have quite the collection of greeting cards to sell. Over 40 of them! So I haven't been a total slacker. Still, I needed a knitting plan. So last night I got out all my containers of yarn and sat on my bed and sorted, wound, and tidied up everything. All the while hoping for inspiration to strike. Fondling yarn can have that effect… but alas, last night I came up empty. I sat holding a particularly nice skein of gray yarn given to me by a friend and willed it to tell me what it wanted to be.  It refused to be bullied and remained sheepily enigmatic. I leaned back against the wall with the wool in my hand and decided I had no business calling myself a knitter if I could sit surrounded by yarn and not be able to muster one little spark of creativity. I declared myself tired and in need of sleep, and put the whole pile of yarn away. I wish I could say that in the clear light of morning, my knitting muse woke me up with a brilliant idea, but alas, that would be a lie. I'm still all muddled. And here's the silly thing. At the market, I ALWAYS am knitting something. It's what I DO there. And I don't have anything on the needles. There's only an hour and a half left till time to load up and get down there, and I'm getting worried. Though, I do have one ray of hope… being around my customers at the market has an energizing effect. In fact, it is entirely possible someone will ask for something specific, which did happen from time to time last year. I just hope no one asks me to knit them a chain saw cozy or something. We are, after all in the country, where chain saws are common. Though come to think of it, gray WOULD be a good color for that kind of project…. hmmmm….