Knitting in the box / Banging my head against woolly walls

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I have been knitting for nigh on 40 years - yes I am old. Since I had to go to school on a Saturday morning to knit squares for starving babies in Africa - no I don`t know how knitted squares filled their bellies and yes, it was a Catholic school. I was never taught I just watched other people and tried to figure out what they were up to. The end

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[more_ruthless]

Oh, those knitting patterns are SO beautiful. Their all single yarn with a lot of cable/yarn over adding/combining stitches, right? I find that more difficult than icelandic, since it's a bit hard to look back and see what you've done. You really have to concentrate on each row.

My thoughts are:
make sure you have a basic knitting book that has lovely pictures that show all of the stitches/yarn overs/combinings addings that are in your patterns. I have found the "Vogue" book of knitting helpful here. Good pictures. You might be able to find good pictures on the internet as well. (Haven't really knitted since youngest, age 5, was born.)

Then, maybe just require of yourself one side/row. If you do more, that's great, but I find the care it takes to do one row of this type of pattern almost mentally exhausting. I certainly have ADD tendencies that have been magnified in motherhood (and apparently an unknown low-iron problem, now remedied YEAH). (This is how I approach cleaning: put 10 things away, if you do more, congrats. If not, you're not allowed to feel guilty.)

GOOD LUCK and keep me posted (PM-ing is fine.)

My latest project is a half-finished piano keys scarf for my sons piano teacher. It has a "hidden" patten. It's dead simple with no color changes except at the end of a row (dead-simple).