Post-Ribbing Bliss
On both of my knitting projects, I’ve made it past the ribbing section and they’re both flying along.
On The Downhill
I consider easy knitting to have a few components:
- I don’t have to look down at my knitting – if I can watch a dialogue-intensive movie with subtitles and keep up a decent pace of knitting…that’s easy knitting.
- I can seemingly knit for hours without physical discomfort – with ribbing, the constant back and forth of the the feed-yarn makes my wrist and/or shoulder hurt after a while, whereas simple knitting or knitting one side, purling the other, my body can do comfortably for a long time.
- If I doze off during knitting it won’t mess up any patterning. Thaddeus has seen me snore and knit simultaneously and when that happens, I’m more often than not un-knitting at least a few stitches to re-establish whatever stitch pattern I’m working on.
- Requires not color changes and untangling of multiple strands of yarn.
- Can be done with a cat lying on half the project.
Current Knitting
Current Reading
I just finished reading The Orenda by Joseph Boyden, and I can recommend it highly.
The story of a French missionary’s voyage into the Great Lakes area during the early European settlement of North America as seen from his point of view, a native American warrior and tribal leader’s viewpoint, and his captured/adopted daughter’s viewpoint. The story is great, the writing is fantastic and I was glad to have gotten to read this.
I’ve just started reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin and so far, I’m quite pleased. It’s nice having friends that know what kind of books to recommend to me.