. . . You’d think I’d have more knitting progress to report than I do.
We watched the last half of the Bob Dylan special on PBS after getting home from the boy’s birthday dinner. Loved the footage of press conferences. What ridiculous questions: “Do you prefer a subtle message in your songs?” Then I watched The Amazing Race, which I’d taped.
(I also need a break from work.)
Last night my boyfriend was showing me the copy of The Believer that he’d bought that day. I was looking through it, and discovered that Amy Sedaris has a really funny advice column, and this issue’s topic was “Crafting.” There were various knitting related questions, one of which was from someone lamenting her inability to finish projects. She mentioned a sweater for a college boyfriend that is still incomplete, many years later.
I’ve only been able to eke out brief amounts of time to knit in the last few days, which is disappointing. Damn the gym, dinner, and freelance work, taking up all my time!
But I’m up to the increase shaping for the USMP. I’m pretty much decided that I will not do the foldover flap, so that means just a whole lot more stockinette with very little shaping. I think the next project will have to involve cables or some kind of stitch pattern. I’ve had enough of stockinette for the time being.
My parents are here visiting (Dad’s running the half marathon as I type), so when the three of us were hanging out before dinner, and dad was reading all the little pamphlets that came with his t-shirt from the race and mom was doing a crossword puzzle, I was knitting.
My yoga teacher and I have a running joke about my perfectionism. She finds it laughably funny, but at the same time, I think she respects my innate need to get it “right.” This in contrast to my friend TL, who will just throw herself into the pose. Ellen will say to her, “You are compensating for precision with flexibility,” but she will say to me, “Let your hip be out of alignment. Go ahead. Try it.” It’s helping me explore the poses from new angles, but it goes against everything I think I should be doing.
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