Another day

[danaeris]

I am at mertuil's place, getting ready for bed. Today sort of didn't happen. There was sleep, and then breakfast, and then sleep.

And then showering and cleaning dishes and packing stuff and sending a couple of necessary emails. There was a drive-by visit with polkamadness and then thai, pie, and Shrek. When the kids had gone to bed, There was Cruel Intentions. Um. That movie is really sexy. mrrrrrr....

In good news,

1. My cold finally seems to be retreating. Today and much of yesterday I've hardly needed my inhalor to breathe! That may not sound like a victory, and my gracious hostess certainly sounded concerned when she heard me coughing, but in reality, I'm doing vastly better
   
2. My hair flogger is done and ready for pick up! I'm very excited about this. I hope its really pretty!
   
3. Friday I rolled my first ball of yarn. Today I learned to cast on, and after a few tries, did a row of twenty stitches. Then, I did four rows of knitting while watching the movies. Tomorrow I hope to learn to purl. It kinda hurts my hands, and I find it HARDER when I hold the needles the way the book tells me to. But yay, I'm knitting! The thread the kit came with is a pretty blue which varies from sky blue to a deeper royal blue.

Now I will attempt to finish inflating the mattress and then go to sleep. Sleep! Yay!

Comments

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

if you find a different way to hold them than how the book tells you that still lets you wind the yarn in the right place and maintain good tension (hard to tell at first but you'll get a feel for this after a while) then do it and to hell with the book. There are at least half a dozen ways to do this (that I've seen) and the book has to tell you one since when you're starting out "just do what feels natural" doesn't mean anything yet.

Of course I learned from my grandmother, put it down for about 15 years, picked it back up again and tried to reconstruct what I remembered of technique from half my life ago. So I doubt I'm doing it like any book says :) But it works!

[tshuma]

Yep, what she said. Forget the book. Find what works for you. The only important part is that you're wrapping the yarn around the needles in the way you should be; how you're getting it there doesn't signify.

Oh, and try to relax. New knitters almost always end up knitting more tightly than they need to, and all that tension translates itself back into the hands as they work with it.