March 27, 2004

Found Treasure

Not.

I did, however, find a piece of the sample that I was talking about.

Note to self: Learn to focus a camera when it's in auto focus.

Yeah.

At any rate, it's about an eighth of the completed sample size. It's one of the ones I abandoned. I think I felt like I was messing up because the bobbles weren't bobbly.

You remember. And I also seem to make lazy cables and free-form meandering twists too!

You see my dilemma.

I didn't want to rip it out again because I wanted to use it as a reference for starting over. In the end, my bobbles still came out looking pretty much the same as did the lazy cables and those meandering twists that kind of took naps on the sides of the road here and there. Turns out, the patterns bobbles weren't actual bobbles anyhow. Or at least not in the traditional sense. Also, I'm told that I'm not to worry because my knitting is loose. Many other knitters knit this way as well. It's less stress on the wrists. Though I wouldn't know it these past few days...

Wrist pain

I'm thinking maybe I should use that suggestion that I saw in THE KNIT STITCH. Or was it THE PURL STITCH? You know the series. The author says to use an egg timer to time yourself to knit for twenty minutes. Then you're supposed to stop for awhile, even if only to reset the timer and then go at it again, as a way to keep aches down to a min. I guess you could stop for at least five to ten mins. Maybe it'll be a little more effective. But then, I think I'd up the time on the knitting to at least a half hour.

I did purchase an egg timer. It was clean and spanking new. But it kind of bit the dust. My beloved son, desiring to take it to show his grandmother, did in fact love it a little too much to put it kindly. The first time I tried to use it, it was just so tired. It wouldn't tick one ticker.

Poor egg timer. You met your match.

A moment of silence please...

Conclusion

So, all things work themselves out after time. I'd slap myself on the wrist for overly criticizing mynewbieself, but they still hurt a little.

May your bobbles be bobbly, your twists be twisty and your cables clutch and crease. :)

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