I knit this hat. It's not even nice. I made it from left-over yarn. The wool is scratchy. It drops little blue mohairs in my cereal bowl. There's a little nubbin at the top that's a kinda goofy. But I can't take it off.
It's like it's fused with my soul somehow and I can't extricate. Some days, I won't leave the house because, although it doesn't go with my outfit, I can't take off the damn hat.
Or I've worn it too many hours for my freshly laundered hair to recover, even with product. So the hat stays.
Some days, I don't shower because I don't want to take the hat off. I figure, if I just leave it on, I won't have to worry about my hair. Sometimes this lasts for more than one day.
So, that hat's been getting some wear. I wanted to wash it over the weekend, but, well, I wasn't really sure what I'd do until it dried. I'm not kidding. So I started knitting another hat, so I could wash the first one. But it's not the same, so that ruse isn't going to work.
I'm sure, in some dusty textbook somewhere, there is a name for my condition. Atypical object attachment? Knit-fixated? Milliner-Elektra Complex? Like I said, dusty.
That's it. Knit and commit. Have a swell day.
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