daydreamer's footnotes

Learning to knit cable patterns takes a lot of mental concentration and requires you to meticulous check your work every few stitches so you can correct mistakes at your earliest without undoing all the work you spend hours to knit. The mental focus it requires is astonishing, and at time overwhelming to someone who mind tends to drift off somewhere really quickly. It’s a kind of mental exercise that helps to counter the mildly attention deficiency syndrome.

While I am working on this knitting pattern, my mind suddenly blanked out somewhere in the middle a few times, and it took me over 10 minutes to reorient myself and figure out where I have left off before I blanked out every time. There were times when I have to undo the whole row and recount to my last good row. It’s quite a challenge but this exercise is really helpful to train the mind and body to focus, so I can take on other tasks that require such concentration.

Onwards to the next exercise.