@projectmamabg 2 August 2025 more from that month

A little happiness

Today I want to show you one of the things I do in my free time. It is quick to make and always brings happiness. These are some of my mushrooms. Several of them participated in a bazaar at my son's kindergarten. . They were all sold so that it could be built or renovated in the children's playground. They are nothing special but they were made with a lot of love and effort so that I could make someone else happy. Both from parents and children, later it turned out that even the kindergarten liked them and bought them from them. This made me happy and made me continue to create beauty with my hands. **Everything created with love brings happiness.** That's why I will not stop making beautiful things that make me happy and other people happy.

They say that knitting doesn't matter whether it's on one or two hooks, it calmed the person who knits down, it made them more calm and relaxed. But only a person who knits knows that it's not exactly like that. Knitting is a process of self-discipline, calculation and to some extent self-control. Now I will explain what all this means. **Self-discipline** You need to find motivation to start knitting, not because you can't but because you know that you have to complete the given project. You need to schedule your time so that you have time for everything. To have time to do your work which you have from 9:00 to 5:00 to pick up the child from the kindergarten, to prepare a meal that you will all eat together, and to find time to sit down and knit. **Calculation** It may sound silly to people who knit, they are constantly calculating things. This is the mathematics that is needed to be able to calculate whether the given element you knit is the right size. Whether the first Nani you make is long enough to be suitable for a baby blanket, for example. How much filling will be needed to fill the amigurumi toy. Can the yarn you have be enough to make one or two items or one or two toys. Do you have the necessary eyes I apologize safe eyes to be able to finish the amigurumi toy. Are they crocheted with the right hook. There are many things that need to be considered and calculated before starting the work process. **Self-control** Only a person who has crocheted knows what it is about. You need to exercise self-control when you are in a yarn store. No matter what your finances are, you cannot buy everything that is in the store. Buying yarn requires space, do you have such space? It is easy to buy a larger amount of yarn and at one point wonder where to put it so that it does not get dirty, or is not pulled by children or pets, or does not absorb a different smell from the house itself. This is one side of self-control, the other is when to stop. It sounds stupid, but it is not. It often happens that knitters get so caught up in the work on a project they have started that they have no time to sleep. Knitting is extremely fascinating, we often lose track of time. And what was supposedly knitted in 10 minutes turns out to be knitting for five hours in an uncomfortable position just because we want to see this element finished.

If you ask someone who knits how they feel while knitting, you will hear different opinions, some will say that it is super calming, others will say that it makes them nervous but they do not stop knitting. Now I will tell you why. When knitting a larger project, most often a chart is used in which it is clearly described how many and what stitches you need to make. It sounds simple. But it is not always. For example, you are working on the body of a dinosaur and you are told that you should have 15 stitches, then a battle stitch again in 15 stitches, two double stitches and so on. You focus on one hand to count those 15, while knitting someone asks you something - the end. You forgot the number. You start counting again or untangle and start again. This is probably the thing that makes me the most nervous while knitting. That's why most of the time I knit when the child is asleep, that is, everyone at home is sleeping and I'm left alone with some TV series in the background doing magic with my hands.