Monday, January 12, 2009

Loving the Yarn

My best friend got me so hooked on knitting. She showed me how to crochet, but i really just never felt the magic with the hook. So i am learning to knit. It is so wonderful. I can do the knit stitch and the purl. I am not good at it at all. But i am practicing. I have a small challenge though. My best friend Lori lives like five hours away. I have a good friend from church showing me how to knit in person and i am supplementing my tutoring from her with my trusty computer and good old youtube videos. It is working to a point. But Uta, from church, knits in euro style and most video's and Lori knit American style. So there is a learning curve. Then today, i noticed that i have this weird pain in my right arm. It is right in the middle of the two bones in my lower arm. I am sad to say that i think it is my knitting style is to blame. I think that the odd twisting motion that I make with the purl stitch, is the problem. I am still going to do some knitting tonight, but i am going to take my time and just not do it for as long today. I love this knitting!