ow quit it

Typically when you start a project, you shouldn't switch knitting techniques mid-way through the back...I know this, you know this, we all know this.  However, since my left index finger was starting to get sore from the continental purling...I just had to find another way to purl.  My right hand is already damaged from that time I knit my niece that Weasley sweater in 3 days and the incessant mouse-clicking that I do at work (yes I have since changed to left-mousing as well).

I just had to.

I had read that you can "pick" the purl stitch kind of like how you pick the knit stitch (not your nose) a la continental.  I tried it awhile back, but it was funky and it leaves your stitch backwards for the knit row, so you've got to remember to knit into the back of the stitch to turn it around for the next purl row.  The needle goes clockwise around the yarn that is held by the left index finger and voila.  The stitch is now on the RH needle. 

A handful of things that I've noticed while doing this:

1. My left index finger hardly even MOVES, thus no pain!
2. It's not so true that no pain, no gain theory.
3. The tension for the knit and purl is naturally much more even w/o having to cinch the purl!
4. Knitting goes almost mach speed!!

Seriously, I am already on the 3rd increase up the front after the waist!!  Sadly I am too tired to take a picture.  My throat was kind of funny last night and I felt ill!  I tossed and turned all night long.  Hot (toss covers).  Cold (where'd those covers go?!).  No wait.  Hot (covers off).  Nooooo, cold (covers on!).  Repeat 50 more times.  ugh.  I think I got 3 hrs of sleep total.

We also had an office move where I arrived to my new location this morning to find that my sofa and ergo desk were nowhere to be found.  Super.  Luckily the move crew was there on the 2nd floor and they were great.  Not only did they find my sofa, they moved it in, moved the fridge over, found an ergo desk, moved ALL 3 of my monitors and hookups off the old desk and back onto the new desk and even installed the underneath plug thingy that they wouldn't install for one of the guys on my team onto his desk when he asked really nicely. 

I leave you with this, only b/c it's more fun to look at a blog that has pictures.

so soothing.ah.

Comments

[Tania]

From one Tania to another... Knitting a la combined continental is the way I learned and becomes second nature quickly. Remembering to go in the back of the stitch is a small price to pay for the even stitches and speed. Welcome to my world!

[Z]

Is that Silk Garden, very pretty.