Dawn Brocco's Life and Design Blog

Well this lovely cold laid me up all day Saturday - I hardly budged from the loveseat. Sunday was better, but only slightly more productive. So today, I wanted to hit the pavement running, or at least plodding. I'm settling for plodding, which is the speed at which I seem to be going, thanks to continued congestion and headache.

I had begun to swatch an afghan idea over the weekend, but then wrenched it from its Addi ckn and frogged it. It looks like I need to get it down on graph paper and make it work there before casting on again.

Amazingly enough, the afghan is worked in garter stitch, which some of you might know I can't stand. I think for as much as EZ loved it, that's how much I can't stand it. It's counter-intuitive to knit a knit stitch into a purl stitch - the purl stitch fights it. But, with a large enough ndl, it doesn't fight you as much and is actually knittable. And for some designs, it is preferred.

Spending days lacking energy and being sick means listening to the tv more closely than I usually do. Usually, it's just background noise, as I don't like a quiet house, unless I'm really whizzing around cleaning (which, in my current peri-M state is laughably in the past). Well, even with cable, tv can get quite boring, so I've been putting in my A Knitting Glossary DVD.

If ever there was a techniques reference a knitter needs, it's this. Sure, there's lots I know already, but there's also tons of stuff I've yet to try. Many hours of knitting brain-expansion await the viewer of this DVD. NAYY. Get it at Schoolhouse Press - where else?!

Labels: A Knitting Glossary, Schoolhouse Press