Slow and Steady

This week I realized small increments of knitting, say 20 minutes at a time, are more likely to happen than long periods of time like I originally thought. At first my lofty goal was one hour three times a day to sit down and unwind. This is proving to be unrealistic. Mainly because my internal dialogue says "you don't have an hour right now" so I end up never sitting down at all. My solution this week has been to forgo the attempt at a whole hour and try smaller increments more frequently. So far so good, even though it has only been two days. I have already found it easier to sit down and knit for 20 to 30 minutes as a study break or reading break in the evenings. This helps break up studying, because who likes to study/read for 4 hours straight anyways.

Knitting and talking is harder than it looks

This week my scarf has grown two inches. It is a slow process OK. As of now I cannot knit and talk at the same time because I am still absorbed into every stitch. Amazing how easy it is to mess up one of those little suckers. All it takes is me looking away for a second and pretending like I can actually knit without staring intently at every move. Well, I am getting better in the sense that I am getting faster and my hand positioning is coming more easily. All sarcasm aside. I still cannot knit and do anything else. My husband tries to talk to me while I am sitting in the living room and this is how the conversation goes: Husand "blah blah blah blah blah". Me "where your talking?". I have never been able to do two things at once, and in fact do not think anyone is good at it they are just rapidly switching from one thing to the other. That aside, I am sometimes amazed how knitting sucks in all my attention and I look up and suddenly realize an hour has gone by and I was unaware of anything around me. I enjoy this in a simple kind of way. Meaning that there is so much distraction around me that it is nice to have some focused time with no interruption, just sitting in my living room listening to faint music focused in knitting. Sounds kind of strange maybe but it is oddly enjoyable. Maybe because I am at the stage in my pregnancy where exerting energy is more and more challenging? Maybe because I just need more calm in my life? My husband says it is because I am an "old soul", whatever that means.

Knitting continued

This is me trying to decipher the knitting jargon. I just gave up reading and tried to follow the pictures. What the heck is a skeine anyways? Well I have officially started my first knitting project. A scarf. How hard can it be? I am sure it will at least kind of look like a scarf when I am done. I have been enjoying the beginning of my project even though I am amazingly slow and wish other could see me curse and make faces as try to mast the hand positions. My eye finger coordination is surprisingly terrible. Who knew there was such a thing. It must use a part of my brain that has atrophied. Here are some more pics of my progress, or lack of.

Knitting is fun?

I decided that making something with my hands is more up my alley as far as fun things to do for a hobby. That way I can have a finished product to be semi-proud of,... maybe. I feel like I accomplished something when I physically make something. So this week I got knitting needles. Way back when I was in high school I learned to knit. Let's just say if the memory of how to knit is still in my brain somewhere it is doing a stellar job of hiding from me. I cannot remember jack !@#$* about how to start. So I am in the process of watching "how to" video's on the internet to figure out knitting. No luck thus far in terms of starting but I did decide to start with something simple. My mother in law is from New York and I am going to make her a scarf for the winter. Of course I won't tell her until it is done just in case it looks like a triangle of some kind. And guess what, I can knit anywhere, even outside. This mobile hobby is sounding better and better. I am excited to go sit out by my new found lake and try knitting. Do I have to dress like an old lady to pull this off? One of the perks of being prego is you don't have energy to care about what people think.