On taking chances and trying new things

So this year I finally took some advice I'd heard several times and entered something in the local fair. Despite our good intentions to go visit the item in question in its temporary home on display with a gazillion other cool items in the Creative Arts building, we never made it to the Fair this year.  Imagine my surprise then, when I went today during the designated pick-up-your-stuff time, they gave me not just a knitted hat, but a blue ribbon as well!

I don't know if there were fifty other entries in my category or zero, but the fact of the matter is this: I GOT A BLUE RIBBON! I'm pretty sure it's my first, and certainly I hope it won't be the last, because knitting has once again taught me that sometimes you just have to try something new: enter something in the fair, attempt a new technique, branch out in a different direction.

In knitting, as in life, if you don't take a chance on losing you'll never have the chance to win.