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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>My local knitting group met yesterday. Our organizer likes to bring something to teach us, and yesterday she showed a Youtube video where the person talked about ripping out knitting that isn’t going well. It was just what I needed to hear. The person said she’d ripped out 2 sweaters she’d made with some yarn because they just weren’t coming out right, then finally found the right pattern for the yarn and made something she loves. She said to just stop and pull it out if it’s not right, because, if you go on and finish it anyway, you won’t wear it, so what’s the point? She said, even if you have to rip the whole thing out, you’ve learned something in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>It reminded me of the Buddhist monks who spend days constructing a beautiful design made of sand, appreciate it for an hour or 2, then sweep it away. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>So, I will tranquilly rip out the part of my tank top that is not right, and make it again into something I’ll wear and enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tracy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>