First, the knitting. In order to check the length of my poncho, I needed to take if off my circular needles. Being a somewhat clever girl, I simply took an enormous length of scrap yarn and threaded it through the stitches. It has taken an inordinate amount of time to get the stitches back on the needles. I thought it would be more efficient to simply knit them back onto the circs. And I still could be right about that, but it took forever! How I suffer for my art …..
Do you guys know about this? It’s a show about knitting. I caught it for the first time today and I must say, I found it boring. Lily Chin was on and demonstrated various stitch techniques – that part was good and informative. The rest was rather dry.
What I like best about my knitting groups is all the laughter – seeing all their projects, hearing about their kids & husbands – how they love them but they’re driving them crazy, what’s been happening in their lives – all the things women talk about when they get together, the ebb and flow of it. Camraderie. This show didn’t have it.
That being said, here is some non-knitting content:
Daughter #1 (the one who was kicked by a horse about a week ago) has a huge bruise on her thigh, which is all kinds of purple ugliness. She has been able to ride and will indeed be competing this weekend at the Hampton Classic. That’s good – my kid got hurt, and now she’s on the mend.
If you read between the lines of my story you will see the important questions of course are,
‘What hat shall I wear’? and ‘What knitting project shall I take along?’ – in that order!
purlingswine 
So happy that Daughter #1 was not out of the saddle for long! Good luck this weekend. We will so want to know the hat and knitting choices!
I haven’t seen the show, but I sure agree with your feelings about knitting groups. Having only my kids (okay, kid, and only occasionally, and now she’s leaving for college) in my knitting group (though Mom’s getting close to picking up the needles again), I think of the whole freakin’ blog world as my knitting group. I feel camraderie, get to see what people are working on, hear about trips and memories and work and life, and share all that stuff myself — I laugh, cry, grimace, and roll my eyes every single time I roll through the list. It’s not the same as in person, I know, but it’s darn good. And it sure isn’t “dry.”
That’s too bad about the show. I haven’t seen it yet but I’m going to film an episode in September. I’ll have to remember to laugh a lot. :)
Not only is the show boring…but it is somehow “odd.” Or…maybe…I’m just too, too old.
The show is odd. It feels really stilted and stale…and too painfully perky. And the “knitsters?” Ew.
That said, I do try to catch it when I can, if for no other reason than to see the techniques being demonstrated.
Glad your daughter is doing better! I stopped recording Knitty Gritty, it really grated on my nerves with all that “knit on” and “Knitsters” and that lovely “knit-o-meter”. And they never really spent much time on technique, though everything they showed was very elementary anyway.
I’d love to see a show that spent an hour on detailing advanced techniques… Hello, Hollywood? Are you listening???