Look at me gooooo......
I am the white trash demographic in my knitting class. My teacher was formerly a scientist at Lilly's and now is some kind of program director at Lilly's. She is 6 months pregnant and was wearing a dress, heels and full makeup. I am not sure where she is getting her energy. The other two ladies work at Lilly's as well and have knitted before and much more recently than 18 years ago. So not only am I the token proletariat, I get to wear the pointy hat as well. I am getting my monies worth, because I need the supervision. I was adding stitches, dropping stitches doing some freestyle stitching of my own invention, it was crazy. Teacher would turn her back for a minute and I would do something to wreck my swatch. I can not talk and knit. I am not finding it to be relaxing at this point. So for 2 1/2 hours, I learned to cast on, and how to knit and purl. I can't promise that I will be able to do any of this without a scientist watching. The others are actually working on their sweaters, while after the 2 plus hours I have still not completed casting on. Now I didn't spend all that time casting on, I had to learn all that other stuff and knit my gauge.
I apologize to those of you who have no idea what I was just talking about. To sum it up for those who aren't down with the knitting lingo... I am not a natural and I have about as much in common with my fellow classmates as I would with in a meeting of future promise keepers of America. In defense of my classmates, they aren't snotty and the teacher is quite nice... she just seems to like the smart kids better.
I hope you all have a good weekend. I will be working overtime on Saturday and Sunday both. I also plan to hit the knitting pretty hard so I don't forget what little I have managed to retain. I think it was suggested that I have 25 inches of work completed by next Thursday, so I need to get clicking! Please don't be alarmed, future posts will not contain such minute to minute reports of every stitch I create. From now on I will just give you the occasional highlights.
Love to my buddies,
D'
I apologize to those of you who have no idea what I was just talking about. To sum it up for those who aren't down with the knitting lingo... I am not a natural and I have about as much in common with my fellow classmates as I would with in a meeting of future promise keepers of America. In defense of my classmates, they aren't snotty and the teacher is quite nice... she just seems to like the smart kids better.
I hope you all have a good weekend. I will be working overtime on Saturday and Sunday both. I also plan to hit the knitting pretty hard so I don't forget what little I have managed to retain. I think it was suggested that I have 25 inches of work completed by next Thursday, so I need to get clicking! Please don't be alarmed, future posts will not contain such minute to minute reports of every stitch I create. From now on I will just give you the occasional highlights.
Love to my buddies,
D'