Unraveling

My sister and I love yarn. She mainly knits and I mainly crochet. She recently gave me some skeins from a crochet project that she had started, but had gone to “crafter's timeout” due to irreconcilable differences (she hated the color). If you craft, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, find a crafter and ask them to elaborate.

Anywho, I claimed this color which was unsuitable to be a lace medallion afghan and decided to make a hat and scarf set. She had already worked the yarn into three medallions which now had to be unraveled back into a ball. The first two were easy to undo, as I found the tail threads quickly and easily. The last one was a bit more time consuming. My sister does excellent yarn work and she managed to work in that tail like a ninja. It was not to be found.

Not to be outdone by a project (or my sister), I determined that if I couldn't start from the end, I would start from the beginning. Life can be the same way. Sometimes we cannot figure out where to begin to solve the problems we have. We can be trying to work from the end result we want, rather than from the where the issue began. Instead of starting from where the problem has stopped, go back to where it originated and see if you can't pull the solution from there.

It may take a little while, but shifting your starting point may help you unravel your dilemma so that you can rework it into something favorable.