Too Old To Learn

When you're only 8 years old, it's cute to make mistakes.

When you're twenty years old and learning to knit, it's ok that your stitches are uneven.

But, when you're approaching 50 and your stitches look like they just snapped out of Godzilla's dentures before he attacked Tokyo. And you accidentally dropped a stitch down there in that ruffle. And you somehow managed to turn your circular knitting around on the beret you just made and all the increase stitches show and the band looks weird. And you didn't notice any of this until you were blocking it. And the blocking apparently doesn't perform the magic for beginning 50 year old knitters that it does for everyone else because everything is still as crooked as Bernie Madoff's financial dealings.

And nobody really understands that your eyesight just doesn't really work anymore. Especially you.

Well, I guess that's just how it is. Good thing I live in a warm climate and haven't actually had to wear anything I've made. And if things ever do cool off I'll just have to invent a busy little relative who is just learning how to knit and gives me things. How sweet.