Welcome to May, I can’t believe how fast this year is spinning by!\u00a0 2012 has become the year of minor, but frustrating, injuries for me.\u00a0 February resulted in ‘interesting’ times after I broke the middle finger of my right hand – I’m left handed, so other than the (continuing) numbness it wasn’t the end of the world.\u00a0 Four weeks ago however I was getting a pain in my left thumb joint – it’s amazing how much you use your thumb when you realise you can’t – and that put a serious crimp in crafting time.\u00a0 Over the next couple of weeks it got worse and worse – resulting in a trip to the GP to try and find out what the problem was.\u00a0 I’m still awaiting results of the tests, I’ll let you know.<\/p>\n
In the meantime I’ve slowly worked back up to 15 minutes of crafting every other evening.\u00a0 I was surprised to discover how much I took ‘doing something’ while ‘watching’ something for granted, and how strange it was to actually have to ‘watch’ something (as opposed to having a film or DvD series on ‘in the background’) – and how bad many of these shows are!<\/p>\n
However, there is a point (unusually for me).\u00a0 I’ve been working on the beautiful Honeymeade shawl, which combines crochet and tunisian stitches, for several months.\u00a0 The pattern and I are having something of a battle – the first two yarns I picked for the project didn’t want to be the shawl and I’ve frogged and restarted more times than I care to count.\u00a0 Finally though I got hold of some beautiful fyperspates sparkle sock which doesn’t pool horribly and I can see the stitches and everything has been going swimmingly since.<\/p>\n
I finally managed to get out to the first ‘major’ charted pattern repeat, on Easter weekend when i was away.\u00a0 I’m a confident crocheter, and a little bit impetuous, and I glanced at the chart, worked out what I (thought\u00a0I)\u00a0needed to do and away I went.\u00a0 FOUR weeks of slow work later I finally finished that single row and returned to the pattern to find out what to do next.\u00a0 At which point I discovered that I had non-read part of the instruction for the previous row.\u00a0 Gah.\u00a0 Ripping out what I knew to be 4 weeks work was soul destroying.\u00a0 Ok, realistically it’s only about 4 hours work, but when crafting time is as limited as it is now 4 hours is a lot!<\/p>\n
One of these days I’m going to learn to READ a pattern.\u00a0 I do not know ‘better’ than the designer, I cannot ‘guess’ the next stage and the whole thing goes so much quicker if I take those 30 seconds to read the d*mn instructions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to May, I can’t believe how fast this year is spinning by!\u00a0 2012 has become the year of minor, but frustrating, injuries for me.\u00a0 February resulted in ‘interesting’ times after I broke the middle finger of my right hand … Continue reading