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I was chatting with one of our Sweater Knitting Bootcamp members last night during our bi weekly live call.

She was having some trouble figuring out what to do for her button band.

After expressing her uncertainties and worries about getting it wrong I stopped her and asked a question.

I knew she had ripped out sections of this sweater multiple times, so it was obvious she was willing to start over if something wasn’t working.

But something was keeping her from finishing.

Her response surprised me a little.

She said…

“I want to be able to look at my knitting and KNOW how to do it right.”

Or something to that effect.

I told her a story about going to a yarn store a few months after learning to knit, and asking someone there to help me fix a mistake.

What she did next looked to me like making a pretzel while doing yoga AND juggling at the same time.

With a few flicks of her fingers she fixed my mistake and blew my mind. 🤯

I literally had NO IDEA how she knew what to do to get everything back in order.

But she was able to look at my knitting and know how to do it right.

Eventually I got there too.

After reading dozens of books, filming 1,000+ knitting tutorials, teaching classes on 50+ topics, and designing my own patterns, I’m at the point where I don’t have to think real hard about how knitting works.

I took the long way there! 😂

That doesn’t mean I know everything.

I’m still learning every day along with you.

And you know what?

It’s ok if you aren’t there yet.

My advice during our call was to JUST TRY something.

If it doesn’t work, rip it out and try again.

You just learned something that didn’t work, and that “failure” is another step on your climb to success.

Far too often we measure how well we’re doing by how far we are from reaching our goal.

What we need to do is look back…

…and remember how far we’ve come.