Knitting Connections

I apologize for the lack of posts recently, busy busy busy! Someone needs to keep me accountable so I don't fall of the blogwagon. I have plenty of projects and cooking adventures to tell all you, who don't really care, about!

Anyways. Tonight is about the "connections" I have made because knitting. I alluded to how much I enjoy knitting class because of the people that I have met.

At the end of my "Beyond Beginning" class a group of us discussed getting together to knit. I know it sounds nerdy, but what about this blog is not nerdy.  Well tonight we met at Starbucks, and we chatted, knitted, laughed, etc for 3 hours. As I left I thought about how much fun I had, and that if I met these women under other circumstances I may have not cared much to "know about their lives."

Sometimes I have a hard time in large groups, because I don't want to do something to embarrass myself or make someone feel uncomfortable. I tend to over think every scenario I find myself in. I learned that when I have something in common- or an ice breaker (i.e. knitting) that I let my guard down much quicker. I found that too often I let my initial judgements of others stop me from really getting to know them. I feel like we all say that we don't judge, but if we are really honest we all do it, pretty much all the time! It is the very reason that I feel uncomfortable- because I know I am (on some level) being judged.

So all that to say, I am glad that I stepped out of my comfort zone and joined a knitting class, and then another...and then met at Starbucks to knit some more. I am even more glad that I didn't let initial judgements stop me from really getting to know these girls!




Side note- the above picture is not my own, and those are some ginormous knitting needles!