{"id":823,"date":"2016-07-15T16:35:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2016-07-15T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:35:25","slug":"im-completely-done-with-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/im-completely-done-with-knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m completely done with knitting”"},"content":{"rendered":"

And I’m convinced that it’s more or less for good!<\/span><\/p>\n

I tell my friend in Sweden, Inge*, about it. \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span>She just smiles and tells me it will be back. <\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

But no, I’m sure. <\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

There isn’t the smallest knitting spark left in me!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The scene is Sm\u00e5land in Sweden. July 2014. It’s 2 months after my trip to Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n

App Campus, who had given us a grant to make our app, gave us a final deadline. We had no chance to make it to the deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n

We were tired; My husband had worked all his spare time for 2 years on this. I had been trying to start my own and had too little income.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now I was in our Swedish summer cottage. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking and thinking. <\/span><\/p>\n

Rethinking and wondering. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was done spending time on all sorts of things in different directions leading me nowhere. I wanted to make something straight forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are doing something that isn’t working – <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

do something else<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

\"Summer<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I sat in the garden, had the big sky above my. The forest nearby, the birds\u00a0and\u00a0the silence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And I had an\u00a0inner flow of impression from China running in me. Like a computer working on breaking a code.<\/span><\/p>\n

My husband sometimes talked about making an app for knitting, but I wanted something else. To me knitting is something you can’t put into data. It’s in your hands, in the yarn and needles. Yes, I know about Revelry and love it, but my imagination couldn’t put apps and knitting in the same categori.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, you know sometimes you tend to forget things that are inconvenient. <\/span><\/p>\n

Like the Chinese mentor whom I pitch the running app idea to. Let me be honest; I did believe in the running app, I had put me heart into selling the idea, but still I was a bit distanced; It wasn’t my heart and soul this came from. <\/span><\/p>\n

He looked straight through me, told me he didn’t believe in the app and asked about my story, how I ended up in the app world.<\/span><\/p>\n

I told him. The story that start and end with the needles. How important it is that you use many different ways to stimulate learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

He pointed at me: I believe in that! A knitting App!<\/span><\/p>\n

Since my mind couldn’t combine these two worlds, one side of my was happy for the way he had outed me, but I put it far away; it was inconvenient.<\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span><\/p>\n

Back the scene in Sweden. And the frustration that our app adventure was over and that I didn’t have much income. That my ideas always went in a 107 different direction. <\/span><\/p>\n

This should be the end of all that. No more working on this and that, never getting anywhere!<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Knitting is something I have alway used. To kill time, to relax myself, as therapy. As a way to create community. Be crative. For learning and so on! <\/span><\/p>\n

But it never leads me anywhere, and now I was done wasting my time. And I didn\u2019t had any desire to ever knit again. Never ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span><\/p>\n

So we drove home. <\/span><\/p>\n

I often get great thoughts driving home and suddenly all my thoughts and impression came together:<\/span><\/p>\n

Knitting and Scandinavia is in my DNA, I can’t help it. I need to tell about it, need to teach about it and I need to have yarn and needles in my hands. <\/span><\/p>\n

I need Scandinavian Knit.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*Inge is a different story, that I might write about some day, but have a look at her\u00a0<\/span>Facebook page<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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And I’m convinced that it’s more or less for good! I tell my friend in Sweden, Inge*, about it. \u00a0She just smiles and tells me it will be back. But no, I’m sure. There isn’t the smallest knitting spark left in me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting-en","category-storytelling-en","category-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}