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I'm guessing that life is really crap at present, because it isn't like you to give up on a new skill so early on.

Well... it isn't like I don't know how to knit, I just don't know how to knit with needles. So my motivation to learn isn't as high as it usually is. Mind you, I learned to hook-knit even though I already knew how to loom-knit, because I had found there were things that loom-knitting was not suited for (cables). I haven't had the same level of frustration with hook-knitting, merely a lack of data as to whether the things I wanted to do were possible or not.

But you are not the only one to observe that I usually don't give up on learning a craft -- the very same thing was said by my friend Janeene this afternoon.

Mind you, there is one craft that I have abandoned in the past as too difficult, and that was tatting (both shuttle-tatting and needle-tatting). I might not have abandoned it if I hadn't considered that I could still do similar things with crochet and macrame, though.

Is life really crap for me at the moment? I wouldn't have thought so... except that I had a bit of a meltdown this evening after a bit of constructive criticism indicated that all the work I'd done on my Etsy photos last week had been a complete waste of time. (sigh)

I'm currently coping with stress by learning German nouns, at least they don't fall off needles...

(laughs)