Posted in projects, travel on March 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Long time without writing, but at least at the moment, I have a good reason… I am in Istanbul! Lovely city, but cold and getting colder. I wish the scarf I am knitting was done so I could wear it.
I was hoping to find yarn, yarn shops, even wool sweaters here, [...]
Posted in singapore on March 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I love our walk to school in the mornings. Since we are almost always late, we are in a big hurry so the walk takes us about 7 minutes. That’s half what it took us when we first arrived, so we must be in better shape.
The walk takes us past house and link [...]
Posted in projects on March 3, 2007 | No Comments »
I spent hours last night on a new project. Emy had told me that wool is not a great choice for new knitters because its bounce compensates for tension problems. My first tunic will be in cotton, which has no memory and has no bounce. That means uneven tension will be [...]
Posted in knitting_lesson on March 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Last weekend I had my first knitting lesson. Never mind that I learned to knit years ago and didn’t have problems. I started knitting again this fall and I seem to have relearned wrong. Seems I’m knitting in a strange way and that is making my tension really, really, REALLY tight. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2007 | No Comments »
I had my first real lesson with Emy yesterday. I am excited about relearning to knit. I learned back in college from my boyfriend Michael. I was never prolific but I had fun. Then I put it down and didn’t do much with it for fifteen years.
Last year I picked [...]
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