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Monday, 27 September 04 :: knitting.

these days i'm campaigning, more campaigning, trying to keep myself sane, more campaigning, trying to keep myself sane, and knitting.

i started to knit a year ago, but i didn't know any knitters. it was all me, and i taught myself how to knit and purl. but thats it. i got myself through a few scarves, loved knitting, but quickly got frustrated and bored with my lack of ability to learn anything else.

so i quit.

one of the few positives about this campaign (excuse me, my morale sucks these days, big time) is that i got to meet e. after a bit of getting to know each other, i discovered that e is a knitter. and not just your run of the mill knitter, e is a hard core, spins her own yarn type knitter. and, she knows lots of other knitters, including one who everyone says is a great teacher, who said she will teach me.

so, since the campaign started i've been knitting again. e has shown me a couple of little things and i've just taken off. i'm knitting at every possible moment. i've completed 2 projects and am working on a third. e is going to loan me some needles, until my early christmas present from my ma gets here so i can work on yet another project.

i'm excited. i've never been the type who bakes or sews or anything like that. my mom raised me on computers in her office, not on needles in the kitchen. a very different set of skills. i've always been envious of people who talk about canning, quiliting, knitting, baking flakey crusts. talents that just aren't that valued in the world i move about in. things that are more meditation and creating something whole and touchable, rather than money making and untouchable.

and now, now when i knit, i can see the piece taking shape, i can feel it under my hands. i get to experience all the textures that come with the different yarns and the different needles. i love wood needles, they feel best in my hands, but metal needles slip with the yarn better and i knit looser on them. i've got some yarn, lambs pride, bulky weight stuff, that i first worked with.. its great and stretchy.. but i'm getting bored of it. now i'm knitting with other stuff, alpaca and tweed, less bulky wool.. each one a different pleasure to work with. each set of colors a treat to see coming together. each one brings its joys (and frustrations at times).

posted by brooke at September 27, 2004 08:35 PM

comments

There's a buncha knitting weblogs out there if you are interested:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/knitting/
http://knitflix.blogspot.com/
http://spinnity.blogspot.com/

posted by: Timothy B at September 28, 2004 12:21 PM

about
i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.