So I’m re-learning how to knit; I’m working on a scarf for the first time since I was like sixteen. Just the garter stitch — I can’t do the faster Continental method yet, I’ll figure that out tomorrow thanks to this terrific video series I found on YouTube! Maybe I shouldn’t have bought black yarn for my very first project… kinda hard to see what I’m doing. My logic was, I wouldn’t have to worry about getting the thing dirty while I flailed around working on it. But anyway, it’s not so bad. I got like four inches done in the last 24 hours — 50 stitches, maybe 12 or 13 rows. It’s going to be a pretty wide and long scarf, if I actually finish it. :-)

In the Eighties I used to be hardcore into making those knotted friendship bracelets, remember those? I would get super skinny pearl string, and use about twenty strings instead of the normal eight or ten. So my knots would be really tiny and precise, and I could make more intricate patterns. I would often work with black string as I’m doing now, working patterns into the blackness that you could only see if you held it a certain way under the light. And why would I do this? I don’t know, it was just what we did in those days. Anyway, here’s the video that I sooo wish I could’ve seen 27 years ago! Amazing how easy it is once you see somebody do it up close like that. Over and over again, at various angles, rewinding when necessary… ;-)

(Update: this post got deleted by a buggy plugin; I had to recreate it. Sarah had posted a comment that got deleted along with the original: “ugh! but the music! and the super bendy thumb! I can’t watch.”)