I woke up this morning to actual SUNLIGHT coming in my window. I am always happy when the time changes for daylight saving time or to go back to standard time. It will definitely take some getting used to the darkness in the evenings, and it will make it a little more difficult to practice driving, but it is SO nice to wake up when it's light outside.
Started out my work day by hosting the Pagan Team's Monday Morning Coffee Chat on etsy. One of my teammates pointed out this beautiful team treasury with a tree theme that I'm in. There was silliness, and fun, and sharing of new creations, as usual! One of the new creations is something that I suggested that NwyvreWeaveWyrks ought to make a few weeks back, and I think that it turned out really cool. Go check out this awesome purple and black chain maille necklace with an ourobouros pentacle!
After the chat, I worked on a bit of digitizing, and then headed downstairs to take care of some machine maintenance and work on some more quilt block piecing. Then, after the mail got here, I succumbed to peer pressure.
I have mentioned my knitty friends before, and how I started dyeing yarn so as to have an excuse to have a yarn stash, even though I don't knit. Well, a couple weeks ago I had to order some yarn for a custom dyeing order. While I was shopping, I saw a learn to knit kit and a basic knitting tool set, and they fell into my cart. (Betcha didn't know that things could fall into a virtual cart. They can.)
When my package arrived, I swore that I would just LOOK at things, and set aside the learning to knit stuff until I got a few things done. I unpacked everything, and petted the yarn, and did not find the knitting tool set. Oh, sad! No knitting for me. Made a phone call, and they promised to send out the missing tool set right away, so sorry!
This time, when I opened the package, I forgot to tell myself I had to finish other things first, and decided to try learning to knit.
Ta-da! That is actual knitting! Rather wobbly and uneven knitting, yes, but KNITTING!
Theoretically, it will become a scarf someday.
4 comments:
Peer Pressure at its FINEST. And that knitting looks pretty good for a first time.
Hah, your "wobbly and uneven" is far more even than I ever managed to get mine. The perfectionist in me wants to knit as tightly as possible; it doesn't end well.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm knitting much tighter than I should, but I'm pleasantly surprised that I can actually manage the basic function of pulling the yarn through with a needle.
Thanks for the suggestion and the subsequent promo!
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