The 12 Steps of Yarnaholics Anonymous

Article by Lynda Sorenson

 

My name is ____________(fill in the blank w/your name) and I am a fiber-holic.

 

1) We admitted we were powerless over yarn--that our stash closets had

become unmanageable.

 

2) Came to believe that more time to knit could restore us to sanity.

 

3) Made a decision to never turn our yarn and our needles over to the

care of any security people, pretending we don't understand them.

 

4) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our yarn stash.

 

5) Admitted to the Yarn Goddess, to ourselves and to our husbands the

exact nature of our irrational desires for more yarn.

 

6) Were entirely ready to let no one remove our yarn stash without a

fight..

 

7) Humbly asked Her to remove our moths.

 

8) Made a list of all the projects we haven't finished, and became willing to finish to them all.

 

9) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to

do so would allow them to get to that basket of sale yarn before we did.

 

10) Continued to take yarn stash inventory and when we had too much

promptly hid it.

 

11) Sought through knitting and meditation to improve our tolerance of

other, non-knitting people as we understand them, praying only for them

to gain the knowledge of knitting for us and the talent to carry that out.

 

12) Having had a rough awakening after staying up too late to finish

that sweater front last night, we tried to carry this message to yarnaholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

 

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Lynda Michaluk Sorenson was an certified Aromatherapist who wrote several articles on Aromatherapy and skin care and was outlining her book when she developed asthma and could no longer continue her work. 

 

During those early days that she was sidelined on the couch gasping like a fish, she picked up her needles again and turned back to knitting with her customary obsessive passion.  Now she has made a new life for herself as a knitting teacher at her LYS, and as a pattern designer who wakes up in the morning with fully formed pattern ideas in her mind ready to be knitted up.  Lynda spends far too much time knitting, and not enough time cleaning her house, cooking meals for her husband, working in her garden, working at all, grocery shopping, washing dishes, replying to her family's emails, or updating her blog.  Though she still does make sure to bathe daily and put on clean undies in case she gets into a knitting accident.   She is usually to be found in her chair in front of the windows, knitting away and grooving to Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes on her MP3 player. - http://luna-knits.blogspot.com/