Friday, August 06, 2010

AM vs PM

No picture as it's embarrassing how little I've progressed.  On the upside I have learned more about myself and my knitting ways.  I got home last night, put the new arrival from Netflix (The Happening - love Marky Mark but he does have strengths and weaknesses in his acting abilities and this was not a strength), and plopped on the sofa to knit all night.  I got part way through a row, had to tink back, thought I fixed the error, knit forward, nope, not fixed, tink back, repeat and finally I just put it down and focused on the movie.

This morning, picked up the knitting and breezed through fixing the error and the next three rows.  Caught my bus and got some work done but then am back at an error.  My observations:

1. Working right after I get up and am fresh provides the best results - quality work done quickly.
2. Working after a long days work when it's still humid out = not so good and more damage done then actual progress.
3.  Working on the commute into work (bus or subway doesn't seem to matter), ok progress but eventual error.  Overall, progress.
4.  Working on the commute home - horrible.  Don't even bother taking the needles out.
5.  Fixing errors are best done in a stationary seat, preferably in the morning.

Amanda had a good point of using stitch markers.  I've been counting like noone's business - probably three times a row to make sure I'm progressing correctly.  It's annoying and takes time and is really hard to do with cream yarn on a sunny day in a moving bus with yelling kids.  I get a cross-eyed headache.  So on my way home tonight I'm swinging by the yarn store and picking up a fresh bag of stitch markers.

This weekend I plan to get three repeats done minimum.  It's doable.  My plan is to wake-up, knit, make breakfast and eat, knit and watch a movie.  Take a nap, wake-up and knit.  Eat lunch, knit.  Take a nap, wake-up and knit.  Then dinner, knit and then chores.  The underlying premise being that I will be rested/sated so that progress will be made, i.e. the ratio of progress to set backs is high.  I may be wrong and find that once I've got a rhythm going, there's no stopping me.  We shall see.

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