This started all the way back in August of 2012 and I used to call it the uncoordinated blanket because there was no color coordination whatsoever. I started out using leftover fingering weight yarn and just kept on going.  It was never meant to look perfect like some of the gorgeous blankets I have seen out there.  It was never even meant to look coordinated.  It was meant to use up the leftover yarns and to turn something that had no use into something useful and usable.  It was meant to be my downtime project, unexciting yet reliable.  It was never meant to be intricate, it is just a never ending granny square.

But the best thing about it, is that it is very honest.  What you see is what you get.  It doesn’t promise anything, it just is. It has been with me in happy times, not so happy times and that one time when I got really sick and almost died.  After that, I started changing the way I look at life and the way I live.  It has taken a long time but I think I am definitely at a much better place than where I started.

Long projects like this one are a reminder that we are never really an FO, we will always be WIPs. No matter how put together you think you are, there is always room for improvement and growth.  I am not perfect, I am clumsy and uncoordinated.  I am imperfect yet I am beautiful, useful, practical, quirky and funny. And so are you.  I do not aim for perfection anymore.  Just for trying really hard and growing.  I want to be more. But I do not want to be everything.

The change in name was inspired by Brene Brown’s book The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are . My sister gifted me the book and it has changed the way I think about a lot of things.

Watch her TED talk, it sort of captures the essence of the book.