Battling a Bad Cold

I have been battling a nasty, nasty cold for a week and it is really kicking my butt.  Yesterday, I stayed home from work and missed Thursday evening knitting.  I have not knit all week and I didn’t even look over the Basics course materials.  My vision appears to be a bit impaired with this stuff.  I spent most of the day sleeping with breaks to let the dogs in and out and get a bite to eat a couple of time.  I also checked work emails, FaceBook and personal email a few times as well.  Other than that I did nothing but sleep all day.  I need to get back to knitting and I need to get the course materials read and get busy on my lesson to get it in the mail.  Maybe today, I will get something done.

It was pointed out to me that I told you about Ravelry, but did not tell you how to find me there.  To be honest, I didn’t think about anyone wanting to find me.  Anyway, for any others that would like to find me on Ravelry and become friends there, here is the link:  http://www.ravelry.com/people/GrammieVee   I hope to see you there.

Also, if you are interested, you can find me on FaceBook and I would love to be your friend. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/VeeVee.Mosher 

I found this lady’s You Tube videos through links on TKGA’s site.  There are some very good knitting instructions here; mostly a bit more advanced than the basics.   I like that with just a bit of searching you find out how to do anything on the Internet.  Sure wish this tool had of been available to me when I was trying to learn to knit.  http://www.youtube.com/user/MtMomDesigns

Even though I haven’t been able to read the course materials very much I have already learned one thing from what I have read.  I have learned the difference between gauge and tension.  Stupid me, I never knew there was a difference; I always thought they were just two different terms with the same meaning.  That shows you how lacking my knitting education is/was.  I am sure you all already know this, but if not, here it is:

·         Gauge is how many stitches per inch and how many rows per inch.

·         Tension is how firm and even your stitches are.

I also learned that the most likely place to have your tension off is when switching from knit to purl stitches or purl to knit stitches in a pattern.  So far I have learned that the most likely way to correct is just to pull your yarn a bit tighter when making that transition.  More on this as I learn more.

I do apologize that this is not too informative today; I am going to use my cold as an excuse to not being able to do more research and/or thinking of things that would be of interest to you.

Go forth and knit!

I pray you are all always happy, blessed, loved and healthy.

Have a God filled day,

V