Knitting to Keep My Hands Busy

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“My blanket is, by any measure, a monstrosity. It’s lumpy, and full of holes, and the rows are all uneven. I don’t care what it looks like, though,” writes mmaggeler

Animation: Stevie Remsberg; Source Video Getty Personal Project is a week about hobbies and digging into our hidden talents.My hands are the repositories for all the roiling nervous energy in my body. Frustration, boredom, and anxiety bubble up in the dank recesses of my amygdala, and then immediately zip down my arms and into my fingers. I twist my hair, rip paper napkins into confetti, crack my knuckles, scrape the labels off of bottles, write out random words on my thigh with my index finger.

I had never knit before, but I had friends who did. From what I could tell, it was seemed ideal: an activity that was involved enough that you physically could not scroll through through Twitter, but not so involved that you couldn’t do other stuff at the same time, like gossip or watch TV.

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