Knitting Adventures of the Past

This post is to inspire myself from my long hiatus in knitting. And to create a library of sorts for the projects I have done so far.

The first project that I knitted was the Calorimetry from Knitty.com which was done under the able guidance of my knitting teacher Ms. Heather of the Denver Public Library. Worn around the head to suit heads with long hair, this is one project that was made easy even for a beginner.

The second project was for knitting in the round. I have no idea where this project came from, but the end product suited the cold Denver weather very much. I still have one more skein of this yarn and currently working on a matching head gear but taking a hell lot of time in deciding what to do. Even after deciding on something, I am unknitting more that actually knitting. Phew!!

My first glove project and till date the only one and truly the most useful thing I have knitted for myself, having worn it even in Chennai.. Hold on.. Of course in the office under the ice cold air conditioning that my colleagues loved and I despised. This one introduced me to double pointed needles and I am sure that is the scariest things I have handled in knitting till date. If I am any less scared today, credit goes to Heather.





My first test scarf which had a combination of basic patterns that I got from the net. Was one cool project but am sure would have looked better in a brighter colour. So that was the lesson learnt from this one.








This beanie cap went in doubles for the Knitting for our Troops which was organised by the Denver Public Library. Happy to think that it should have helped in keeping somebody warm, though I might have my own opinion on wars that has become a part of daily life in many parts of the world.

Finally.. The one hat I had knitted all by myself without any pattern in hand. Having made the mistake of not writing it down, I now have only a vague idea of how I did this in 2008. But I am informed by my friend that it serves the purpose well for the junior for whom I had knit it then. So that makes up for the forgotten pattern. As long as the product is put to good use. :)

Rules of the Road

Sometimes I wish I could be able to read every written word in the world. With the advent to the internet and the flourishing blogging community and even without it, I am sure any of you reading this should be saying to yourself that this could be the most atrocious thing anybody could think of. But reading something that you have picked out of nowhere and then enjoying it thoroughly, in itself is such a joy. The first time I experienced that was when I read a book by Alice Steinbach which uplifted me from whatever morbid mood I was in then.

This time around, I read "Rules of the Road" by Joan Bauer which made me feel nice. A simple tale of a teenager girl's escape from her current situation to travel on road from Chicago to Dallas along with an elderly lady and how it impacts her and the way she looks at things after that. Not a travel book, but the thought of sitting behind the wheel and traveling with the character transports you places. Some of those brief instances when you feel that there are some things the author is saying instead of you (think that happens in every book I read) gives a sense of belonging. Like we are part of the book and the journey.

My takeaways from the Book:

"If you set your mind and heart towards a healthy way of living and thinking, you'll find a way to climb out of the biggest pit life throws your way"
"God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. Close to everything a human being needed to know was somewhere in the library" A human being only has to have the need to know...