Loki’s Technicolor Net of Imperfect Knots

“And as he sat in his house, he picked up a yarn of linen and started to tie knots in it, and he did this in the way that people have been making fishing nets ever since.” - Gylfaginning

Loki is very proud of his net

As the mythological inventor of the fishing net, I have always associated knot-tying with Loki. As such, “tying of knots” is one of the ways I meditate/show devotion to him, which usually means crochet. If you think about it, crochet is making knots out of yarn.

Much in the way I imagine Loki would have done as he sat in his house awaiting the Aesir to catch him, I decided to make him a gill net. That ended up being my September devotional project for him.

I set out to make the net with a rainbow-ish gradient for him. At row four I made an error and didn’t flip the colored strands correctly. I didn’t notice it until 3 or 4 rows later. Being a bit of a perfectionist my first instinct was to undo all the knots back to that mistake. That need to have everything be “perfect” to be worthy of being shared is something He has been working on with me. Of course this project became a vehicle for that lesson.

He was not about to let me undo all those knots to make the pattern fall correctly. Nope, those knots were tied. Any knot I tied in this net had to remain. He was going to hit me hard with some lessons.

My mistake would not change the functionality of the net.

Not all mistakes are inherently bad.

Not all mistakes need corrections. Mjolnir had a handle that was too short thanks to a mistake on Sindri’s part (yes, Loki instigated the mistake, but it was still Sindri who made it). It's still the greatest weapon of the Aesir.

So, I let go of making a perfect net and got to experience the process. The net ended up being not perfect in the slightest. Not only did the gradient not fall the way I had planned but the net was not even. One side hung down much lower than the other. (They make it look so easy on Alone).

It’s imperfect, but it’s Loki’s net of imperfect knots, and it’s still capable of catching all his trinkets. Which, I am now realizing, has just expanded his “altar space” exponentially.

Yes, Loks you have more room for stuff now.