If anyone ever tells you I died in an avalanche…..just know that snow was not involved…
You are NOT supposed to wake up and be functional this early on a Saturday….even when you are retired. I did go to bed early for me and only woke up twice (and one was totally my cat/cow walking on my person.
There is something magical about knitting garter stitch…….you almost don’t have to be present….you can problem solve, sail away to your ‘perfect place’, listen to an audio book, watch a podcast, watch tv or a movie…..you get the picture. So many shawls incorporate garter stitch. Purling is a slow process for me. I am a thrower…..I hold the yarn in my right hand and loop it around the needle. I have tried Continental, left handedly flicking, but my tension is very loose. You can practice that with garter stitch so easily.
Purling is slow. People say, “But why do you want to knit faster ? Don’t you want to savor the process ?” Because there are soooooooo many projects in my queue that I want to cast on and knit, Silly. I DO savor the process. I purl backwards. I used to knit in the back leg of the stitch all the time and I went to a knit group in Orlando and they all said “You knit WRONG”…..and later I was told there really is no wrong way to knit… that if the garment doesn’t fall apart, you’re doing it your way. I did change the way I knit a stitch (the old way is called twisted rib ? maybe)…..but I still purl by looping the yarn to the left under the stitch leg….not to the right over the stitch leg. I will always purl that way. I teach both and let the person do what is comfortable for them.
Look what came in the mail yesterday…I belong to a monthly yarn subscription called ‘Knit Crate’….and this month there was only one skein of yarn, Knitologie Sheen…colorway: Titmouse. It is such an unusual colorway for me, but I immediately went online and bought three more skeins, so now I have four skeins of an unusual yarn (75% Merino, 15% silk, 10% cashmere….FINGERING) and am looking for the perfect recipe for it. It struck me as an early SPRING colorway. It has been a very wet winter here, so this is like grey skies, dark blue storms, brown lawns and tree lines…and bright yellow daffodils pointing the way to Spring. I will have to see how it looks caked up and maybe knit a swatch to see how the colors flow. I’m thinking a garment of some kind….maybe something crocheted….the things that make you go “hmmmmmmmm”.
So, coffee first….finish MT’s sock, run the cleaner and wash up the sinkful of dishes….and move on to the Quicksilver Shawl, by Melanie Berg. It is a gift for someone and I would like to finish it up. I’m close. Closer than the Agleam Shawl is. One thing about Stalking The Grocery Girls…….it is making me a more organized knitter.
oh, look….shiny
What a pretty blog space you have created! You are using your retirement wisely with so much to do and so many projects to keep you busy. I never understood the retirees who complained of boredom. Did you know there is a Ravelry group for combination knitters, which is what you’re doing?
You have also inspired me to catch up on a few Grocery Girl episodes, which has only resulted in seeing more yarn I have to have and more patterns I need to knit (and books I want to read). Love it!
Thank you. Glad you like it.