Posted on 01/20/2007 9:36:14 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum
I do this more than I would like to admit!
We've got the ice storm coming through here today. The low pressure is giving me aches and pains where I didn't even know I had joints!
I get tendonitis and sore muscles in my hands and arms when I go on stitching binges. I tend to wear a wrist brace on my right hand, and learned to do some things left handed, just to spread the stress around and try to prevent damage.
I crocheted a curtain for our dining room window 10 years ago and my arm *still* hurts if I crochet for more than 15 or 20 minutes at a time. (I don't even whisper the C/T phrase.) That said, I love cream colored knit or crocheted blankets and afghans. They look so elegant and tasteful. Not like those feather stitch variegated acrylic monsters we learned to do as teenagers. ;-)
I've got a couple of crocheted lace patterns I'd love to play with some evening... they look like medieval needle lace, but go a zillion times faster.
Have you done filet crochet? I love the looks of that in thread, and it's all done according to charts. :-)
I don't have the patience for lace, LOL!
I like cream-colored afghans, too. I've got one done and have two more to do before NEXT Christmas, so I'm actually way ahead of myself for once.
But once 'Gardening Season' hits, that's it for crochet for me. I'll get my aches and pains using other muscles! :)
I envy you your garden. I have been nagging nonstop for several years for help in putting in a garden... I've got my fingers crossed that this will be the year.
I gardened in Michigan for years. That soft black dirt is heavenly. I still lose track of the calendar down here where last frost is April 15!!!
As for making lace, I moved to smaller and smaller yarns and then to thread for $$$. I get a lot more stitching time in for a smaller investment. Thread is cheap!!!
My eyes are getting old, though. I'm getting quite a collection of reading glasses and magnifiers. LOL
I get numbness in both my pinkie fingers when I work too much. You're not supposed to get numbness in them...it's supposed to be the middle and ring fingers. But me, I have to be weird and get numbed out pinkies...
Luckily, the pinkies don't affect my fiber handling much...
;-) Consider it a gift from the fiber gods. LOL That's almost like having arthritis in your earlobe!
"My eyes are getting old, though. I'm getting quite a collection of reading glasses and magnifiers. LOL"
Yep. I had to purchase my first pair of cheap "magnifiers" this year. It goes well wtih my first "Old Lady Crown" that I had to have put on one of my molars.
I'm just putting off the inevitable. *SIGH*
Well, if we're lucky, we'll have our prize tomatoes, plump cats and our stitching to comfort us in our dotage... LOL
You read my mind! I am looking forward to a small, clean, comfortable little cottage in the woods with lots of cats, quilts, books, chickens, a milk cow of my own and a nice, fenced garden. *SIGH*
Think Tasha Tudor, if you know who she is. :)
But the Gods have gifted me with tendonitis in the base of the thumb, and an arthritic first finger on both hands....Crochet scares me any more...and I used to like to do thread work with fine, fine threads...
Magnifiers, especially lighted ones, are your friends...
I adore Tasha Tudor's lifestyle. Do you know those series of books, The World of Tasha Tudor?
That's exactly what I want to be when I grow up. I take a pair of milking goats for dairy though. LOL
Those are some of the books I love to just lose myself in. :-)
The lord giveth, the lord taketh away, darn it!
Maybe that's why our eyesight goes as we age, so we don't miss the intricate crafts that we can't do anyway, quite so much. :-(
Sore hands was part of my thinking in getting a new sewing machine. I can still make quilts if I have to guide the fabric with my elbows! ;-)
A new source of gifts and collections too.
We can turn all of our vices to virtues if we work hard enough.
We are queens at rationalization! ;-)
I collect her books. She's one of my favorites.
Can't stand goats though. As a child I was an 'indentured servant' on my Aunt's farm each summer. Taking care of the goats was one of my chores. (I look back on those days fondly now that I have a farm, but back then? I was just a City Kid with poop on her shoes, LOL!)
Vile, smelly, evil creatures. They're possessed, I swear. Did you know they have square pupils? Definitely evil. ;)
We had dairy goats when our kids were small. They were so smart. And so affectionate.
I miss having them around.
I can believe they would seem very different to an Indentured Niece, though.
I had brown Toggenbergs and white Saanens, just like Heidi. :-)
I WAS going to use up some of my handspun and make myself a nice warm hat, but the weather has been so nice, I can't work up any enthusiasm for the project. LOL!
It's worked in panels, but if I could COUNT like a grownup, I could probably get it cast on all at once. I use circular needles, so holding the work wouldn't be TOO much work... The panels are right, left, center, and two small "insert" panels of cable and lattice.
Join the club. I have an absolute pencil fetish, but also collect pens of all kinds. I should be happy. It USED to be paper that sent me to heaven...
At least stocks of pencils and pens aren't such a fire hazard. I'm a hard core paperclip freak.
My daughter goes for pencils.
My other daughter goes for shoes. Thank goodness that sometimes skips a generation... ;-)
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