Incoherent Scribblings

10 Favorites:
Favorite Season: Spring
Favorite Sport: Tennis
Favorite Time: Evening
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Actor: Don’t really have one.
Favorite Actress: Don’t really have one.
Favorite Ice Cream: Mint Chocolate Chip or Cherry Nut
Favorite Food: Anything Indian
Favorite Drink: Coke
Favorite Place: Under the covers

9 Currents:
Current Feeling: Chilly/Hungry
Current Underwear Color: Black with blue and green flowers
Current Windows Open: Firefox, Word
Current Drink: Off to get a Coke now…
Current Time: 15:12
Current Mobile(s) Used: Nokia 6610i
Current Show on TV: TV is off
Current Thought: “My stomach just growled. I must be hungry.”
Current Clothes: Crazy lounge pants, T-shirt

8 Firsts:
First Nickname: Nae Girl
First Kiss: Terry W. (1st grade)
First Crush: Burton H. (from 8th to 9th grade)
First Best Friend: Carla L. (kindergarten – 5th grade)
First Vehicle I Drove: 1979 Chevy Luv
First Job: Iowa DOT Paint Crew
First Movie: The first movie I remember going to was Star Trek, the first movie I went to alone was Cinderella
First Pet: Tigger (cat)
First Shave: I think I was 11 or 12

7 Lasts:
Last Drink: Milk
Last Kiss: A couple of hours ago
Last Time: A couple of days ago
Last Time Shaved: Friday
Last Web Site Visited: Trish’s Blog (where I snagged this)
Last Movie Watched: Timeline
Last Pill I Had: THE Pill

6 Have You Evers:
Have You Ever Broken the Law: A time or two.
Have You Ever Been Drunk: A time or two.
Have You Ever Kissed Someone: A time or two.
Have You Ever Been in the Middle/Close to Gunfire or Bomb Blast: Well, I have hunted before… I suppose that counts.
Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: A time or two.
Have You Ever Broken Anyone’s Heart: A time or two.

5 Things:
Things You Can Hear Right Now: The fan in the bathroom, my computer’s fan, my typing fingers… that’s it. It is Sunday and in Germany that means quiet time.
Things on Your Bed: 3 Pillows, 2 Cats, 1 Comforter
Things You Ate Today: I have only had a bowl of cereal.
Things You Can’t Live Without: My computer, my stitching, my bed, Coke, chocolate
Things You Do When You Are Bored: Stitch, write/blog, sleep, read, play with the cats

4 Places You Have Been Today:
I haven’t even opened the door today.

3 Things on Your Desk Right Now:
Mp3 player charger, laptop, mouse

2 Choices:
Black or White: Black
Hot or Cold: Hot

1 Thing You Want To Do Before You Die:
Get my vision laser corrected.

I haven’t cross stitched since Thursday because on Friday I went downtown and saw that my local department store was having a sale on knitting items. A sale on knitting stuff? What better excuse that to learn to knit?! So I bought some needles and some yarn and since Friday afternoon I have been teaching myself to knit!

The result of all of this is… a square! Actually, it is technically called a “beginner knit block.”

I must say I had great fun doing this and I am pretty proud of the way it turned out. It took me a while (read: quite a few hours) to get the whole casting on (*) thing down, but once I did the knit stitch seemed to fall into place. After my block was approximately as wide as it was long I was able to bind it off and I didn’t find that too hard either. I have not yet done a purl stitch, but I will tackle it soon.

After learning to cast on, my biggest challenges were finding a comfortable position to hold the needles and the yarn and consistent tension. At first my stitches were too loose, but after I got the hang of the knit stitch I think they were a little too tight. Of course, the yarn I bought probably wasn’t the best yarn for a beginner to work with (the diameter of the yarn varied throughout the skein – it was supposed to) so that may have made consistent tension more difficult that it would have been otherwise.

I have tried more times than I can count to crochet, but I never seem to be able to get past a chain, so I was quite surprised at how quickly I seemed to get the hang of this whole knitting thing. I can’t wait to practice some more! I would love to make myself a scarf before the end of the winter.

However, today it is back to cross stitching for me.
* - Please forgive me if I don’t yet have a proper handle on knitting terminology. I am sure as I practice I will learn it better!