I favor the surprise strategy. It’s a no-fail approach because there’s no picture with which to compare the outcome. I am genuinely curious what something will look like and enjoy wondering. The experience is an exercise in watching expectations arise and not holding on to them. Staying in the present and knowing that it just is what it is at any given time.
The perfectionist in residence watches, waiting for the chance to step up and complain. Some people have a perfectionist that has been well trained and sleeps through the project. Other people have perfectionists that whine alot. Some are unabashedly harsh and don’t know when they’ve worn out their welcome.
We knitters are a polite bunch and must find a graceful way to dismiss the overworked perfectionist-elf. Maybe knitting a cute little scarf for the elf would be a sweet good-bye gift. It could double as a bookmark, but we’d always know that it was a little something that the elf left behind.
Tags: curiousity, pattern, perfectionist elf
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