Stumbling Through Adulthood

Fair Isle knitting. Green on green, so not very visible in the photo, but that's the practice yarn that I have so I used it, LOL.



The all-important "other side":



My biggest issue is that I am still not moving the yarn the way I'm supposed to. My fingers just don't want to move that way. I'm going to have to practice a lot more, I guess.

Another three things post. It's just that kind of week.

1. My mom is with my sister. My house feels wonderfully and strangely empty. What makes me sad? Since I won't be seeing it day in day out, I expect the next time I see her, I'll be shocked at how badly she's slipped. My sister is going to bring her back up here for a few weeks in March so they can go on vacation. Apparently the drive yesterday was awful, longer than expected because weather, semis, and multiple stops, and my mom got confused and anxious towards the end and demanded they stop so she could buy cigarettes and got angry when they wouldn't. Ugh.

2. Knitting! Figured out how to do the join with circular needles. I did have to grab the info from a webpage, cut and paste it into Word and flip left to right etc. When I was trying to do that on the fly, I'd keep on getting confused. Anyhow, the yarn I picked is pretty but otherwise kinda sucky, but it was cheap, which is what I wanted for a first project! Steel needles and Very Slippery! Having fun. The cats... well, they're trying to have fun too. We just disagree on what kind of fun should happen with yarn.

3. I knew it and now there is scientific proof!!!! Bilingual attentional control: Evidence from the Partial Repetition Cost paradigm. From the abstract, bolding mine:

These findings suggest that language experience does not affect lower-level processes, and supports the view that bilinguals exhibit enhanced attentional disengagement.

I always said that bilingualism just meant that my kids could ignore me in two languages and I was right! 🤣

The concept of the embroidery sampler: all wide variety of stiches and techniques, all in one project. I did one -one!- once -once!- way back when. Never again, but I do remember loving the chain stitch and hating the 'point de tige', which, I just had to look it up, it actually a directly translated stem stitch, that I could never get even. Anyhow.

What I need is the equivalent for knitting and I can't find it. A project with various stiches, increases, decreases, some color changes and patterns, and how to read a pattern. I keep on hoping and looking for so far I haven't found a good jumping in point to more complicated stuff.

I'll figure it out and if I do, I'll write up a tutorial for The One Project To Tech A Bunch of Knitting Stuff, LOL.